I sent in an application to be an editor for the category for my suburb in Victoria, Australia and I was approved within 24 hours
24 hours?! It took my friend 2 weeks...and he was denied! Well done for getting the job, I guess you can *accidentally* approve your site now, hehehe.
Ssshhh don't tell this to everybody cause people will keep telling "add me" I pmed my site please add me
I wont be adding my sites because it's for a different category I'm only doing my suburb that I live in atm although I've already requested to help out in another category
Congratulations! I hope you don't expect to spend too much time approving links, since no one will ever see them but you. For the past two years Google has been burying DMOZ ever deeper in the SERPs (because surfers don't want to see all these stale links) in favor of Wikipedia (which is as fresh as warm milk straight from the cow). Expect the occasional 3 month blackout where all your "work" might be lost because AOL, the Directory's owner, does not consider the Directory backup-worthy, and does everything it its powers to swell attrition numbers. Did you know that after neglecting to update its version of the Directory for nearly 2 years, Google recently dropped the Directory completely from Google.com? Netscape has dropped it... even its owner AOL has dropped it. Google officially dropping the Directory is the ultimate signal of "non-trust." The Directory cannot possibly fall any deeper... well, maybe, like beggars or parasites, they can start to add their stale, parked-domain ridden dmoz categories to the far more successful, useful, lively and open Wikipedia in a desperate, last-ditch effort at visibility. Nice to see them in a grovelling position, after the way they treat webmasters at RZ. Karma is going around. The rejected would-be editors are actually the lucky ones!
Haha, OK, I'll stop worrying. Phew, that was a close one. Let me check my crystal ball. I see... hhhhhh.... mmmmm... you will be summarily rejected for your second application with probability of 97 percent. Which is a blessing in disguise of course, take it in stride.
As a former Queensland and Australia editor myself (under the name oneeye), I would say Oz is the best place in the ODP to edit Brennan. It always was my first labour of love. And the editors around you are generally a good bunch to get to know. Best of luck! P.S. I went from a locality to state editor in weeks and national editor in a few months. Follow the guidelines, ask for advice in the internal forum, and you will do OK.
It's so stressful lol and it's not just approving sites it's finding websites in your suburb and adding them and theres not many websites from my area and if there is they have already been added.
Can I ask you a question? As an editor, what are you looking for in the websites which are to be approved? I'm from Queensland and have submitted to DMOZ several times but unfortunately it hasn't been approved yet, and wondering what I've been doing wrong?
They are looking for sites with good content not just MFA, MLM, etc. Also your description shouldn't include your site name in it, you may have submitted it to the wrong category as they prefer you to dig as deep into the subcategories as possible, feel free to PM me your submission and I'll guide you on what to fix Not getting accepted into DMOZ isn't the end of everything tho .
Here are few DMOZ tips for both newbie editors and webmasters. (Ivan's shameless self-promotion stunt) So watch you back in there, keep a low profile and you can make a fortune if you win state lottery.
It may be nothing at all. Submitting multiple times does you no good, can be detrimental, never helpful. Most times, if the site is listable, then a delay is simply down to resources available to review the site. At one point I had the every single Qld queue down to nothing. Briefly. Then they crept up and up again and I could not cope more or less on my own - demoralising.
I was surprised at that, and I found it here: http://www.google.co.uk/dirhp?hl=en I'm sure it's out of date, etc, but it was two clicks away from the Google homepage.
I see you were talking in another thread about Google in the US. I was looking at the UK version. Sorry.
I'm pretty sure I have some random green things in the back of my fridge as well...I'll eventually get around to tossing them out, just like Google will with the ODP. I mean, come on...it's two years past it's expiration date, do you really want to call it there?