Just wanted to pat myself on the back for this one and give a nod to those tiny niche editors doing their job. After having submitted two other sites in different categories months ago without so much as a visit, I noticed dmoz.org in my referrer log for a site I submitted last night. It's in today. Good work, editors. I can understand why the first two aren't in yet. This one, however, is the first work I'm proud of in ten years of professional writing and design. It's good to have outside reinforcement of that.
That is still slow! I use to list all the good sites I could find in few niche categories I use to maintain long before there webmaster even thought about submitting. Somehow that was considered conflict of interest so now anyone submitting to these categories can only pray.
You're likely to be right. The tiny niche has almost doubled in size today. If I'd waited until tomorrow I doubt I would be in Wednesday. Well, I'll interpret luck as a pat on the back.
Fair play to the editor, though sadly getting listed that quickly is the exception rather than the rule.
It's like finding a penny. You're happy for a second, then you realize you can't buy anything with it.
I submitted one of my blog 4-5 months ago but, have not listed yet. May be the editor is little busy.
You could wait 15 years for your listing. If it helps your rankings, it's not enough to be noticeable. It's just a link...
No, not as I understand it. I believe that editors can update the directory in real time (though there are others here more qualified to answer that question). And, yes, I agree with everyone here. It's like finding a penny. I got lucky. Does it mean anything of value? No. The niche this site focuses on is almost impossible to monetize. My investing site will likely never be added, no matter how many useful pages and great calculators I add to it. It's still lucky. And I still feel good about it. Now... what's it worth is a whole other discussion. The pages are PR0, yes, but so are Yahoo directory pages, which cost $300. Has the site been indexed? No. I've got verified sitemaps pages to prove it. DMOZ does not get you indexed immediately. So, take it as you will. I got lucky. It doesn't mean anything. To anyone except for me. Cheers.
Oh, it's a little depressing after a week. I think I'd rather no movement in my inbound links than the increase I've seen in the last week. Though G Sitemaps has indexed my site and I am ranked highly for some obscure keywords (obscure enough that I should be ranked highly) there are no links listed in the link: operator. Perusing the Yahoo links: operator tells me a lot. All my links are from a bunch of scraper sites that pull straight from DMOZ. This wouldn't bother me if they weren't such obvious spam sites. There is no reason to visit these MFA's, and I can't imagine them ranking well or anyone visiting them, honestly. Far more valuable to me has been stumbleupon.com. My site is all free flash animations, and stumbleupon is heavily used by bloggers. About 20% of my traffic has come from links provided by blogers in Holland and Canada, while about 10% has come from DMOZ. Keep in mind, of course, that I'm working in a niche that is near impossible to monetize, as there is only one product to sell, and that product can be bought at any shopping mall for under $5. I'm just looking for traffic.