How do I get listed on DMOZ

Hey everyone...

Anyhow, I just started my 1st website about 2 weeks ago. I submitted my site to dmoz but I havent heard back from them.

Usually how long does it take to get listed?

 

It does take a long time to get listed on DMOZ....your looking at 6 months if you are lucky!!!

 

"Any time between a couple of months to several years..." That's the answer most DMOZ editor give when asked about this. You can also search this forum for further reference. You will learn about the way sites get included in DMOZ.

 

You have been given the short answer it can take from a few days to a few years, but to explain a little all the editors are volunteers, their task is to build categories in which they have knowledge and interest. A suggested site is just that, a suggestion for an editor when they chose to build up the category that you have submitted to, an editor working on a category does not have to use the suggestions that is at their discretion. In some areas the suggestions are often a waste of time, in others they are more useful, but editors don't have to work the suggestions if they have other resources. I built a category of over 800 and there were few suggestions anyway, but it was my interest, so I built it. Editors are not there just to try and see how many useful sites have been suggested, as many would like us to be.

You have not heard from DMOZ because they have acknowledged that they have received your suggestion, it will now wait until it is reviewed. After a review if it is listed or rejected you will not be informed.

Thank you for suggesting your site.

There is a maxim which says, submit and forget, its a good one. You can do nothing more at DMOZ to promote your site, please don't resubmit, you might be branded as a spammer.

 

Oh my goodness.. That is extremely insane. I guess I will not keep my fingers cross to be listed in their index. If it happens it happens. I will submit to other directories in the meantime. Thank you for your replies.

Tiff..

 

I had a bunch of websites get into DMOZ about two - three years ago and they were very low quality, they are still in there today too. Now, I have one of the top websites in my niche market and I still don't have a chance from what I hear!

 

It's quite hard to be listed in DMOZ nowadays. I have submitted my site about a year ago,and resubmitted later.But nothing happens.

 

What happens is that your second submission would have overwritten the previous one with the new date!

 

When you re-submit. I thought you needed to do it to a different category so that you might get a different editor and you would not overwrite your original submission date. Is that correct?

 

No it ^%$£ isn't. Follow our Suggestion Guidelines that you signed up to and don't re-suggest your website at all.

(unless you want to waste everybody's time and to risk being branded a spammer)

 

Its great to have authoritative answers to wildly debated topics on here, but there is no need to get aggressive. Don't you agree that if there is a directory with such an authoritative nature (DMOZ) it should at least:

1. Have a timely process for review that is public.
2. Notify you if you are accepted or rejected.
3. Inform you why you were rejected so you can correct the problem if possible.

I agree that its free, there is a LOT of junk submissions and there is a lot of volunteer work associated with DMOZ, but cmon. What if I expected that level of service from Mozilla?

 

Boiler plate alert

1. You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

2. If a website's listable (and you can check this for yourself) it'll be listed in time. If it isn't, it won't be. Status reports thus serve no useful purpose to anybody; our experiences at RZ proved that beyond any doubt. An automated system would need some development effort and AOL doesn't have a lot of that lying around at the moment.

3. You can already check for yourself whether or not a website is listable (see above). We aren't talking spelling errors or ugliness here, we're talking unique content and business model. Since an unlistable website's owner already knows where he got the content from and what his business model is, we don't see how it benefits anyone to tell him again.

 

here are some good tips to get listed on DMOZ http://www.best-web-directories.com/DMOZ-submission-tips.htm

 

Its NOT a queue, so it's placement in the "suggestion pool" is irrelevant.

There are dozens of sites with dozens of listings in dozens of categories... if a site is good enough, it should be suggested to each category that it fits within. In fact, there are several instances where submitting the same page to different categories is also more then acceptable based on current listings...

Or are such sites with multiple listings only for editor pages?

 

Ill keep it short.
I never said that the time scales should be dictated by website owners. I just said public and adhered to.
I have read the editorial guidelines. Highly subjective. Hence I believe feedback is appropriate.

 

How much are you paying for this expectation of the provision of services?

 

Are you saying any volunteer organization that serves the public should not have customer service standards or service level agreements because it is volunteer work?

What would any open source project look like if that were true? Nevermind charity organizations.

 

DMOZ is not there to provide a service to webmasters!

 

No disagreement there.

 

I submitted an alternative medicine website and it's not listed, should I try submit again for some years?
I read http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html and I am sure for 99,99% that is not MLM, affiliate etc..