any DMOZ editors here?

If you want official 'open' contact them try here http://blog.dmoz.org/. One way or another most issues are raised there and one can comment/ask questions.

 

Strange as it seems, that IS official, but erm, they don't answer a lot of questions it seems as I have MANY unapproved comments....so how about actual contact information? The contact editor pages are broken, the blog does not approve actual questions (though strangely I have seen several 'why isn't my site added yet' comments approved *boggle*)

So yeah, the blog is seemingly a loooong way off from actual contact information.

 

I wanted to be a dmoz editor, but later thought...ohh, man leave it

 

Dude I hate these threads. DMOZ is a waste submit it then forget it. Don't ever ask about your submission it's a waste of time

 

Google indexes the world. No fair. Wait. are you telling me that you did get a reply from Google? Or is it the support Google answer site?
Yeah, the official forum is closed to outside access, but you can get some good replies there.

 

1. Google directory look strangely the same as DMOZ directory, no?
2. makes really no sense to me...
3. same equal treatment for the different submission...................
At least for the shopping category would make sense to me with a deadline for an answer: yes or no with 3 words of explanation: inadequat content, non original content for the directory ...

Once again, it is an open discussion, no point of talking of my websites here...
Take care.

 

Then why not tell Google what you want, they only use our material. DMOZ works on a model of not being a listing service for webmasters and works with volunteers and if you can tell me what all our volunteer editors will be doing this time next week, I can tell you when any suggested site might be reviewed. If you want it different tell Google, whom we have absolutely no influence with, to change the material they use.

 

I'm a DMOZ editor, but not very active.
I try to review some sites a few times each month.

 

I submit to dmoz every year. It still no joy for us. Please advice?

 

Why? There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.

 

If there are no editors, then who is adding the 3000 - 6000 sites a month that DMOZ adds?

 

I submit my site to DMOZ half a year. After submission, I will check back after six months.

 

Please do not re-submit, it can be detrimental in getting your site listed, it can get you banned as a spammer and it does no good, we have not lost the site if it is listable, it just waits for an editor to use the suggestions pool in that section to get a review for a possible listing. If it is not listable, then it would usually take a complete rebuild to get it listable so unless the site has completely and utterly changed then re-submission will not get it in. So either way re-submitting is usually detrimental and gets one absolutely no where.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, Anonymously. So if I submitted my site to DMOZ, and find that my site is not listed on it after six months, what should I do?

 

There is nothing you can do, so just keep doing what you usually do.

 

You should simply move on and promote your site elsewhere. You can do nothing to assist your cause and in fact, anything that you do may well delay a potential review. Reviews can take from 1 day to many years, so do not dwell on it

 

I was very surprised to get an email that our site was approved for DMOZ. Not because it was a bad site but because it was submitted two and a half years ago. Better late than never!

I thought about submitting more sites but the wait is too long.

 

Really? That's extraordinarily unusual. Care to share?

 

Actually it was just over two years ago I submitted it. It's not a great site but not bad. It is a lead generating site for movers. Not much else content so I wasn't too hopeful. None of the other sites made it.
Maybe they were too new at the time. Maybe being so far back in line worked out for that site.

Would it be counterproductive to resubmit the others that didn't make it? It's been two years.

Thanks.

 

I think Jim was asking some more detail of the email you received.

Please don't re-submit, if the sites have been rejected then they would need to be vastly different to be accepted and if they have not been reviewed yet then the new submission will overwrite the date stamp and an editor working to check the older sites will see it as a new suggestion.