How much time required to appear on dmoz?

How much time required to appear on dmoz?

 

Well if you bothered to read any of the hundreds of threads, you may well know that you suggest a site, it may or may not be reviewed and no time frame is provided.

There is a sticky at the top that provides further information.

 

Domoz time limit is very difficult to say basically what you need just submit your site and forget about it check once after 6 months if you find your site means you are lucky

 

why 6 months? why not 7?

 

what if after 6 months it still not appear, can we re-submit the same site?

 

Why? What will resubmitting do? (...nothing!)

 

just wana say "submit and forget about it"

 

hahahah
I like it

 

Well, there is no time limit for your site being reviewed. There is not warranty your site will be reviewed at all. And if you keep asking about it, most probably your URL will be banned by a DMOZ editor. They don't like webmasters.
If you are lucky your submission is in the last place of an already overloaded queue and there is a small chance that an editor review it in the future. You can't even ask whether your submission went through.
If you go around this forum for a while you will read about current state of affairs in DMOZ and its corrupted editocracy.

 

As the majority of people here have stated, DMOZ is not a directory that you can count on being listed in. Some of the editors have joked that you've a better chance of them simply finding it and approving it before they check their constantly flooded queue. Like it was suggested, submit and forget.

If you're not already listed in a solid Directory, a lot of people suggest the yahoo one which you can pay to be listed within a week or two and does (speculated) help your rank.

 

Ex-editors have suggested it might be better not to submit a site not present editors.

You are also expecting something that DMOZ is not designed, intended or ever will be and that is a listing service.

We ask fro suggestions from webmasters, from general surfers. That is exactly what it is , a suggestion. We reserve the right not to list any site and we do not ask for suggestions so that we can simply work down a list and include the sites, that is not what we signed up for as editors. It is our hobby, we do this in our spare time. We cannot tell you how long a review will take because you cannot tell me how much time in the next six months I need to spend in the garden, with friends and who in my family will be sick. Who will visit us from abroad, how much time I will spend in oither volunray work. If I knew that I just might be able to tell you how much time I could spend editing on DMOZ. Then there is the motivation, do I want tonight to wade through loads of spam sites that are unlistable? When you can tell me all that for every editor we have then perhaps we can tell you how long it will take. But when we have decided how much time they have to spend on this particular hobby you have to be able to tell me which area they will choose to work in? Will that be on building new categories, checking old ones, reviewing sites that our bots have thrown out from the live directory, mining for new sites or looking into the suggestions pool. Now when you tell me all that I can give you a better idea on when your site will be reviewed.

We do this as a hobby, we are not paid and we work in our sp;are time and we are not interested in what a listing might gain from that listing. We don't dislike webmasters many of our editors are such, but we do not offer a service to them to get their site listed in DMOZ directory. May others do, if you want to pay for a listing there are good directories, if you want a free listing there are good directories that take most sites offered and don't look elsewhere. That is not what we are, sorry if that is not what you want to hear.

 

Don't be confused. More than 1 year is required. So, create a website now and after a year, your site will be ready. Although this is funny, it is a fact

 

..but some websites are listed before they've been suggested - which is a sorta negative elapsed time .

No it isn't. Elapsed times before processing are uncontrolled and so unpredictable.

 

Yahoo doesn't guarantee approval also.

 

Probably the best answer I've seen. This should be a sticky to serve as the definitive answer. What people seem to forget is that the very thing that makes DMOZ a quality place to have your link listed (something I've been waiting for over 6 months now), is the aspect that takes the longest to be listed, a QUALITY human run site. We all know that quality = time hence, by design, DMOZ = Time

 

If DMOZ is a quality place to be listed in, how come it's full of death links, garbage and spam sites? If it's a quality directory why editors list their own sites using multiple listings when that's is said to be forbidden?

DMOZ is far from being a quality directory. And all you have to do is browse a couple of categories you are familiar with to notice how bad it is.

Finally, arguing DMOZ is a quality site because it's almost impossible to be listed is a really dumb thing to do. Quality has nothing to do with time. Relationship between these two concepts depends on whatever you are judging. In an F1 race the winner is whoever which takes less time to complete the circuit. Or should we tell those guys they have to change rules?

 

Pity you can't read, but there you go, we told you that editors list deeplinks and multiple listing at their discretion. Again will ask you to search for BBC, see how many deeplinks that site has. But it is our discretion. What is forbidden is to suggest deeplinks to a site. If we want them we will find them when the main site is reviewed.

In F1 it is the one who completes the circuit fastest, but in boxing it is the one who stays up longest who wins. With your stamp collection why would you care about speed or whatever, so long as it meets with your approval, it is your hobby after all, why should you worry what others think. Oh strange that's how we feel about DMOZ, let's compare like with like. Do F1 drivers do it for a hobby and without payment? Hobby to hobby.

You can ride a hobby horse about DMOZ is that your hobby then?

 

Whatever you say makes no difference, as you post anonymously. We don't know who you are neither why are you so afraid of revealing your identity. What you think about anything has no meaning.

 

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