Hey! If you are a beginner webmaster want to learn how to get yourself listed on DMOZ follow this mini-tutorial I got on my blog - please leave a comment if you like it URL -http://webcrunchblog.vndv.com/?p=10 Thanks M3RC
Bad advice. If you want to get listed dont follow the advice given - esp the bit about keywords. When you wrote that, you should have called that paragrah: "How to make sure a DMOZ editor ignores your suggested site".
I think what he is saying is to craft a readable and literate description (good advice) but to include keywords in it. The reality is that mot submitted descriptions are rewritten but a decent one will on occasion be accepted with limited alteration, so there may possibly be some benefit to the webmaster in following this advice.
yeah my idea was to written a well written decrip. so you can convince the DMOX editor you worthy of a place in their directory - how they implement it on their website is totally upto them and we can't do much about it.
Editors are under no obligation to even look at or let alone use suggested sites when looking for sites to add to a category. The submitted sites are just one source that they can use. I was an editor once and only used to scan the suggested sites looking for gems before leaving them there and going on to other more productive sources of new sites. Only occasionaly would I reiew and add a site from the suggested ones. To grab an editors attention, you need to stand out from the crap. The only way to do that would be to have a perfectly guideline compliant title and description (90% of suggested sites do not have that). Your suggestion of getting keywords into the description is a really good way to NOT get an editors attention and is clearly against the guidelines. How do you think any directory (not just DMOZ) should treat any submission when the submitter can't follow the guidelines?
but im not saying just include random keywords - maybe I wasn't clear enough I have edited my blog. but what I meant was if you have a good descriptive description (and also a title has you say) the editors will be drawn towards it hopefully and then reviewed - their judgement regarding the review is upto them and this is where you need to be lucky - you might not be able to get listed on the DMOZ but atleast give yourself a fair chance is what Im saying
There has been a misconception that the guidelines require editors to dumb down descriptions and to avoid keywords at all costs. This is nonsense. Keywords describe site, that is why they are key. This is the guidelines actually say (underlining mine) Two examples of a imaginary hotel listed in a a hotel category in Touristtown The former is immediately understandable and useful to real people and automated users of the data, describes the site in language that everyone understands, meets the guidelines ,and wow even makes the webmaster happy. The second is crap, but is often perceived as good because it is very guideline compliant.
Two simples rules to getting listed in DMOZ. Submit to a category with an active editor, and more importantly, submit a QUALITY site.
Nah, submit to the best category for your site. If you submit it to the wrong category it will only get moved by this peson you have percieved to be an "active editor" to the correct category where it will start its wait all over agan. This is good advice though.
^^ Well yeah, of course submit to a relevant category, but if your site is general enough to fit in 2 different categories, submit to the one with the most active editor.