Hi, How do we know that our website has been rejected or listed? And if it is rejected can we send the inclusion request again? Is there anyway to check the status? I have seen few Dmoz editors here they can answer this question. As I know sending the submission request again and again is not good.
There is nothing you can do. Why do you even have any sort of expectation of any sort of service from DMOZ? Perhaps those who are unhappy with the service they get from DMOZ should ask for a refund.
If you build your website for the end user ie. your visitors and therefore provide good original unique content, then your site has every chance of getting listed. However the key is to forget about DMOZ after you suggest your site and concentrate on providing a better resource for your visitors. Therefore when your site is reviewed by an editor, the chances of it being listed are a lot higher. In short, once you have submitted your site to DMOZ, move on as there is nothing more you can do.
Just to add it can take from a few days to a few years for a review for a possible listing to take place. You cannot speed that up, we as editors cannot predict when that review will take place. We do not contact whoever suggested a site if it is used neither do we tell people who have suggested a site if it is not used. Re-suggesting a site can delay that review and re-suggesting enough can get the site banned as spam. DMOZ is not a listing service, we do not set out to be a service to site owners, we set out to build categories that we as editors believe will be useful to a surfer who wants categorised links. If anyone wants to join us we are all volunteers working in our spare time, there is a button on almost every page saying "volunteer to edit this category".
Note the Location Where You Are Going to Submit in Dmoz i.e. Computer> Software> USA> California> Sanjose and Keep Checking
Why not just add your URL minus the www to the search box and it will show if we have listed it, remember editors do judge if you have suggested to the correct category and if not they move it. So you could find yourself looking at the wrong category.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! Well, in many cases wrong, moving it to the correct category is just as optional as actually bothering with the suggestion pool at all. So post to the incorrect category can result a 30 year wait to get a review only to have the editor delete it due to it being in the wrong place. Granted, if the editor IS nice enough to move it, it could result in two 30 year waits before it gets rejected. And again, this is actually assuming that TWO editors actually bother with the suggestion pool, which again is completely and totally optional.
An editor reviewing a site and thinks that it is in the wrong category has two choices They can leave it for another editor to check and move They can move it to what they believe is the correct category They do not delete it. You may have done that when you were a big shot editor but it is not what we do.
What? And you say that I am misleading and twist words... if I could have done it as an editor, then why can't other editors? To say that ALL CURRENT editors WILL ALWAYS move a site is a flat out LIE and you know it. You are NOT a listing service, nor are you a messenger pigeon for other categories. There is nothing in the guidelines that makes it mandatory that a site gets moved. If a site does NOT fit in the category, it CAN and often does get deleted. I've seen no proof to contradict that....so please, stop lying to the other members of this forum.
Sites are routinely moved and offering to an incorrect category is no reason to delete a site. You should have read more whilst you were an editor.
I did read, read a lot in fact.... and no where does it say that moving the site is mandatory. That being said, is it the right thing to do? SURE IS! But then, another RIGHT THING would be to actually use the suggestion pool, and you yourself say that's completely optional. So why on earth would MOVING a site not submitted correctly be a MUST yet checking the submission being an option? heh... it seems that with all the things one MUST do once they check the queue, then it's no wonder no one wants too
Do tell us which bit I refer to that you read! Do tell us why you think that when we say that editors can choose how they spend their spare time and what they do as editors is their choice that you should be able to tell volunteers how they are going to spend their spare time and work on their hobby. But its good you show such an interest after being there, having the chance and what did you do with it? List your own site a couple of others and then bolt. Yeh you are well qualified to stand on your soap box and dictate to those who stay and don't just take the benefits of a quick own site listing and leave.
if you submit your link in DMOZ you need to wait for long time to get listed and the first time you submitted your site don't hesitate to submit it again because it won't get listed... about the checking the status there is no way to check just by doing it manually.
Tell me, are you trying to twist this back on to me because you can't back up your claims? Are ya trying to attack the poster rather then the post because the post is right? If I am wrong, then prove it! Editors spend their time as they see fit, I am told this over and over and over, you even say it... yet now, I am seeing a new rule that is never over looked by ANY editor EVER? Seriously? (note, I say RULE, as the rest are only guidelines)
Are you on crack? You are the one saying that editors MUST move a site, I am the one saying they don't have to. If you get off on bickering with me so much, at least stick to one side of the discussion