What kind of websites are accepted by DMOZ?

@Lotos1

Like most volunteer editors, if dmoz started accepting paid submissions, i would be gone in a flash. Why would i do volunteer work when they get the money? No way.....even if you decided to pay me, i would leave. Im here to have some fun doing editing, not a second job Actually...a 3rd job.

We do not want to list every site in dmoz because we are not a listing service. This will again bring claims of "just repeating"....but hey, its simply a fact. The point is that people make suggestions and possibly, probably, maybe's, they may at some stage be reviewed and included in dmoz. Thats it...open and shut.

No site is promised a listing...No site is guaranteed a listing....Providing listing services is not what we are about.

 

So why is DMOZ's Google PR 8/10? Do you have that humongous number of backlinks and why is DMOZ considered so important by Google if this is all a fun hobby? I have a hobby, but Google does not give a crap about my hobby.

 

Hmmm. I don't really think so. To be accepted as an editor you need first to disclose all your affiliated sites. They need to check whether your business may overlap with some previous editor business.
Another important thing to do is show two or three URLs you would add to the category you are applying for. They have to be sure you are able to find websites looking like made in the '90s or being just one page long. This kind of sites are hard to find. That's why editing is not for anyone.
How often do you find a website that hasn't been updated in the last eight years, and is not yet listed on DMOZ?

 

I've read in another post where a DMOZ editor said he has no clue how websites are created or ranked by search engines nor why people want to be listed so badly on DMOZ. If this person is in charge of approving sites, then how do they even know if the site they're looking at is a legit site or a spam site? I'm not sure if this person is even qualified to approve sites.

Speaking of sites looking like it's 1995, I can create one in less than a minute. Just give me Notepad and I'll splash some pretty colors to make it look childish and amateurish. These sites get approved the easiest by DMOZ's community as I already saw too many such examples currently in their directory. I will also add a little affiliate link which will be hidden as I will link a picture of a clown to my squeeze page and I will say with an H1 tag, squeeze the clown's nose and make a child happy.

 

If you haven't much time you can always go to MS FrontPage and create a awful looking site in seconds. It's said that site having <meta name="Generator" content="FrontPage 5.0"> in their HTML code get listed twice faster in DMOZ!

 

Hahahaha. Please, this is becoming too funny. I will leave it at this as there is no point to keep looking at the flaws of this particular directory (as there are many obvious ones) and that is run by people for free who do not even know how websites are ranked by Google and why people want to be listed there.

 

You're right.

 

the sad fact is dmoz is dead who goes to dmoz to search for any thing? and i do believe that some editors are on the take! and always will be, no one can find out. some sites on dmoz are shit all this hype about dmoz is getting boring.

 

The smartest comment you have made to date

1. You can stop looking for flaws. There are plenty....they will be fixed in time, but this is none of your business. Everyone likes to pick faults, but few are willing to step in and help.

2. Regards Google.....i know very little about how it works and thats because i dont care. If Google choose to use our info, thats cool. If not....i dont care.

It sounds like complaints need to be sent to Google, not dmoz editors. If G place importance on it, if it does pass high pr, if it does help with serps, what has that got to do with dmoz? Its how G are using the info, not us, so perhaps you should contact them and complain because frankly, i dont care

It's quite sad to read some of these threads and see the very childish, foolish and unreasonable claims that some people are making, simply because their site(s) are not included.

 

Fixed in time? Like the time frame for reviewing a site: between a couple of month and never?
And for the helping thing. DMOZ seem to be in a desperate need of editors and at the same time is rejecting most applications.

They may look childish to you, but it's none of your business. You are not forced to read them.

 

what type of question is this..??? they accept all type of websites..

 

As I said to you yesterday, you start on a false premise.

We are not interested in what page rank a site has got
We are not interested in if it will give a listing in Google or anywhere else
We are not interested in listing sites for the web master's benefit.

Our interest is to build categories, categories that we want to build, it is our hobby, we do it in our spare time. You might not like these answers but it is why and how DMOZ exists. For it to be anything else, as snooks and I have said, we would leave. But give us a sniff of someone who wants to build categories for their own benefit either by taking money or listing their own site against their competitors and they will be given the order of the big boot forever.

Why Google chooses to use us, I have not got a clue, if they stop using us, makes no difference to me, I want to collect and collate sites as my hobby and I will do that in DMOZ even if Google positively warns against us. We cannot be held responsible if a large organisation like Google chooses to use our data, give it a higher page rank because of that and make DMOZ links very attractive to web masters. Ask them not to do so, but it is not within our control or interest.

 

WOW, I should start using FrontPage from now on and stop using M$ Office Word

 

And why do you like collecting websites for other people to see may I ask? It's kind of a strange hobby, don't you think? If I wanted to have a list of sites, I could build my own list but I would not bother sharing it in a directory with others since my 'taste' for websites is different than other people's taste for websites. I may like something others don't, so why shove it down their throats?

 

LOL.

Why do people hit litle balls with sticks and call it golf?
Why do people build little houses out of cards?
Why do people stand on a piece of timber or fiberglass in water and call it surfing.

Different hobbie, but isnt every hobbie perculiar to someone else? My other hobbie is darts....basically throwing little bits of tungsten metal at a board made out of sisal cactus, with painted numbers

 

I know people who collect stamps and every time I go they insist on showing me their latest acquisition!

I hope that some people can use the collections, I certainly benefited not long ago when I wanted to research a topic I could turn up sites that had the information in a jif, thanks to someone collecting the sites together. It's the large number of collections which mean there is now almost something on everything!!!

And as for shoving it down people's throats, LOL, when did DMOZ become compulsory wall paper. I thought you had to navigate to the site and then research the topic you wanted information on. And if its shoving it down people's throats on here, it is in a section about DMOZ. ROFL

 

Due to the confidentiality guidelines of the ODP I am not at liberty to publicly post the sites you have unfairly listed

How many stamp collectors do you know that collect only worthless stamps with a few nifty ones tossed in to make the list look impressive? For instance, my 4 year old grandson recently drew a stamp on some construction paper... do you think your stamp collecting friends would like that stamp? Another question about the people you know that collect stamps... do they collect other peoples stamps and claim that their collection is the best stamp collection in the world? I am not sure... but I think there are just too many differences between stamp collecting and the ODP.

 

You will be lucky man if Jim Noble never asked you to see his next project collection
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=12380481&postcount=16

 

So why are you on a forum designed for webmasters to share ideas and help each other rank better in search engines and drive more traffic? I know that this sub-forum is for DMOZ specific topics, but it is made for webmasters to discuss things like why their site has not been added for a year or decade, or whatever the lengthy time period is , or what effect does being added to DMOZ have on their rankings and traffic.

You keep saying that you do not care about webmasters and that you are not a webmaster, yet you are on a forum for webmasters. I really do not believe the story that none of the editors at DMOZ are webmasters and that none of them have their own sites. Soon, you will make me believe that you do not even know where babies come from.

 

He won't reveal the sites he owns nor the sites people related to him (in any way) own. That would be a little too obvious.