How soon to resubmit?

I sumbitted my site to DMOZ about 6 weeks ago, and know from my visitor logs that I had a few visits linking from editors.dmoz.org several days later.

I'm guessing that was an editor reviewing my site. It's been over a month since then and my site isn't in the directory. Should I assume it was rejected? Let's say my site has improved since then, how soon should I resubmit?

 

and it's a good site with real content. All my sites I've submitted have been accepted quickly, until now.

 

Could have been an automated hit by some tool or another. Could have been just a quick look by a passing editor. Could be something just making sure it's where it belongs...

Submit once and forget about it. Move on and promote your forum by other methods, and as always, continue to work on your site. In another year or three check to see if you made it in or not. If so, jolly good. If not, not major loss, you promoted by other methods.

Getting listed is a complete crap shoot, you've rolled your dice by submitting, now you must just carry on as if you have lost, as that is the norm.

 

How long does the approval take ?

 

I saw some sites be accepted after six months from submitting.So,maybe you have to wait for a longer time.

 

There is no specific date. Editors are working as "paidless" volunteers. Trust your gut. When you feel you are ready to resubmit, then just do it.

 

Yes, I know it sometimes takes months for a site to be added, but I'm hoping an editor or someone else more knowledgeable about it can provide me more info.

Assuming an editor did in fact review my site, does it show up in the directory as soon as he approved it. Or does it sometimes take several weeks after editor approval?

If the editor rejected the site, does that mean it will not be reviewed again unless I resubmit? Or will they revisit it months after rejecting it?

 

So many questions, so few answers... your guess on these matters is as good as anybody else. Just move on and submit to other directories, and by promoting your site by methods other then directories.

Some editors will run through their list, check the sites, add the ones that are super, toss the ones that are crap, and then leave the ones in the middle for deeper review... which could be from a few hours to a few years.

So you really should take the second part of the submitting motto and "forget". After all, DMOZ is known for many things, but speed is NOT one of them.

 

Why don't you answer the man’s questions rather than play your little games with your trite answers.

Yes. In the past there was a delay of up to maybe a few hours but I believe that the editor and public servers are now synchronized.

As a general rule they will not visit it again. There are some exceptions. An editor will sometimes add the site to a watch list or their bookmarks to check on the site at a later date. But this is not the norm.

 

How are your answers any better then mine? I did answer the question, and officially as you did. If you want to give REAL answers, then quote from the official guidelines, anything other then that is speculation.

See you are just guessing with that...

Another guess based on generalities.

So why don't you answer the mans questions?

 

Hells bells Christopher, the guy asked a question and I answered it. I, like every other editor, knows how long something takes to appear on the public server. Likewise they know (as you also do) that once something is deleted from unreviewed it is gone.

You really, really do need to calm down. Perhaps you could find a potion that would help you.

 

Do you KNOW it was deleted? Do you KNOW it was accepted? If you KNEW you would not have said "generally" or "I believe" you would have said "I know" or stated your answer more matter of factly.

I answered the questions, and both answers are pretty much the same, as stated by MANY others on this board. "forget"

But I'm sorry that you have this compulsive need to disagree with anything and everything I say here publicly.

 

Anyone can resubmit their site as often as they can at any Regional Category provided you live in that area. That is the easiest way to have a listing. Most active are UK editors so people in UK cam resubmit their sites as often as they can as no editors here can actually help and will only "GIVE YOU THEIR OPINIONS" and their opinions are SHAKY, MISLEADING, and a lie. Just submit and submit if your not yet listed.

 

Nonsense

Suggesting the site repeatedly to the same category merely overwrites the existing suggestion.

 

Well Folks if you believe what the editors say since its not official as stated as

All of my comments are personal opinion based on editing experience and not official ODP representation.

Your site can't be listed as they could not provide specific answers to webmaster problems.

Submit and submit is the only option for now.

 

YAY, clash of opinions!

To bad Editors are not allowed to actually say how things work or answers might actually be found someplace outside of internal forums.

However, I would really like to believe that the supposed editor knows what he or she is talking about over the opinions expressed by an ex-editor, but sadly, it is all just opinion. And even ex-editors have to know what they are talking about to some degree... they were after all part of DMOZ for a time.

 

I appreciate the lively debate. As for my own site, it was just accepted. Judging from my access logs, it seems the same editor that visited my site a month ago revisited it just before it was added to the directory a few days ago. I did not resubmit it.

 

Sometimes editors do nothing but check sites and move them to where they belong, then they'll go back to review them, or not. Depends on how big an area he edits across.

As far as editors versus ex-editors answering questions here, an ex-editor with 6 years of editing experience, will usually know a bit more than a current editor with one year of experience, so it depends on how long an editor has been editing and how wide an area he edits in and his level of editing.

 

Operations management 101 teaches you to avoid double handling. An editor who looks at a submission and discerns enough to determine that he wants to move it, is only a few keystrokes away from finishing the listing job.

DMOZ editing doesn't have a high learning curve. If a new editor decides to master editing it shouldn't take more than a month to learn 99% of all he'll ever need to know. In the field of engineering, I've seen guys with 30 years in the profession but they basically had one year's experience repeated 30 times over.

 

Good management theory, but if someone sends a Shopping site to your category... you can't edit in Shopping... all you can do is send it over.

You aren't an editall, nor is Crowbar, nor are most of the editors in the directory, so his point stands... if the site needs to be somewhere else it depends on how wide a range the editor edits.

That's why it statistically delays your chance of a quick add if the site is submitted to the wrong place. In that case the editor that first sees it probably CAN'T list it.