My submission to DMOZ failed again

My Submission to DMOZ failed again, can someone here teach me or tell me how to get this done? I have tried for so many times, but still failed. Please help me if you have the answer. Thanks

 

How do you know the submission failed? They don't send notices if a site is rejected, accepted or held in purgatory until someone figures out what to do with it.

It seems like you've submitted more than enough times already, too many more might get you noticed for the wrong reasons.

If you're submission was successful and you saw the confirmation page, you're done. Nothing more to do as far as dmoz is concerned.

Go promote your site and forget about dmoz. If it happens, it happens; if not, no biggie.

 

as CReed said, how do you know it failed?

Every time you try you just overwrite the previous submission with the new date and move yoru site to the back of the list. You are your own worst enemy!

If you have "tried so many times", you may have been flagged as a spammer and blocked!

Did you even read what you agreed to when you submitted? If you did, then you would not have resubmitted.

There is NEVER a need to submit more than once. Anything beyond that is counterproductive and hurts your chances!!

BTW, if its the affiliate site in our signature, then assume it got rejected as its not unique or very useful content and look MFA - not the sort of site that DMOZ lists.

 

Just to clarify a couple of things
1. Overwriting the date stamp is bad if an editor, and some work this way, is either clearing out old submissions and sorting them out by deleting, listing or moving or the editor is working the area by the oldest suggestion and s/he may well have had enough before s/he gets to the newest ones, especially in areas that are very spammy. Re-submitted sites look like new submissions. Though one has to say that these are not generally regarded as a Q, because editors will also cherry pick sites which have been suggested and guidelines followed. So I often believe that someone who has tried with their description is more likely to be aware of what sites we are interested in and those who have not bothered reading the guidelines are more likely to be spam.
2. Sites which have some bricks and mortar or some kind of base are allowed to have a listing in the locality section of the Regional branch in which they are situated and a listing in an appropriate Topical area in the directory and under these circumstances we encourage a submission to both. Often editors will cover this and send to the other section, but not all do.

Resubmitting is what is forbidden under guidelines.

 

It's a largest open directory and it want to be approved manually. So obviously it will take much more time to be approved. You just want to submit and wait.

 

I think u wait just a week and then add your website in the queue again. It may takes long time. So wait for few months. Go deep in the category and then submit your website with the company name, short description, not promotional language. Check your view first to submit it for review. Is your website worth for others? or if you do business have contact address in your website, the quality of your website. All the things are ok then submit it in the directory. The website worth for others must get place in the dmoz directory.

 

actually dmoz never send report it success or fail, just wait. and its not every site i think can be listed there

 

Very poor advice. Each new listing suggestion for a website replaces any earlier one. If an editor sorts the pool by date, a repetitively suggested website will be forever at the bottom of it.

 

Is DMOZ better for you to improve you website PR value?

 

If this is true then its very poor coding. I know its not your fault as you didn't code the site in the first place but imagine the failure of such a system. Competitors could just submit rivals sites weekly forever forcing the rivals site to the back of the queue.

 

dont cry over dmoz. there are lots of directories better than it. you won't get traffic from dmoz anyway.

 

You wont get traffic from any directory... will you? I mean, who really uses directories other then bots? I run a forum, and most of the people I know have no clue what a directory is, have never used one, and most have never heard of one....and those that have are generally webmasters or have stumbled across a niche directory.

Its coding was TOP NOTCH when it was written... though it was written years and years ago with little to no updates. From my understanding they don't even place things in a database as we know them...

Though, I have to admit, crap code or not, they have some enviable directory options that phpLD does not have...and the interface on the ODP is better then any of the backend directories I've worked with. *shrug* sad they do not use such nifty options to the best of their potential...

 

But perhaps you did not take enough account of Jim's 'if'. Not all do, may cherry pick the ones that look productive.

The better side of the coding is that we are not overwhelmed by people who think they should submit, wait a week and submit again, and again and again. But perhaps you also know better and know that the coding does not only pick up sites that have the same email address and IP

 

Maybe I am special as my websites do get traffic from directories. Not as much as I get from search engines but DMOZ for instance sends me some 10 visitors each month to one of my websites.

 

what strange category do you use? Heh... an editor tutorial site?

 

I'm not surprised. One of my sites receives between 45-60 visitors a month; 51 so far this month...

 

It's not about traffic right? It's just that Google loves to see a backlink to your site from dmoz.org.

 

You wanna hear funny stuff?

AMRAY Directory according to AwStats received so far 54 hits from DMOZ
but the funny part AMRAY Directory is not listed in DMOZ

I wish Jim can explain to me what is going on?



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Haha, I'm not sure if their editors privately talking about you is a good thing or bad thing.. In my site's case it'd be like "hey, let's not list this guy yet, just see if we can make him go a little more crazy!"...