Been waiting 5 years!

I have been waiting 5 years to get eugenef.com submitted... can someone help... Submitted a couple times...

 

Well DMOZ does say to only submit it once. How far about were the submissions made?

 

Move on and get listed in other directories.

 

They were a year or more apart.... how can they not let me submit... I don't understand! and why can't I speak to anyone there!!

 

That doesn't appear to be the case as far as I can see. Its been suggested enough, IMO. I would recommend against further re-suggestions, and continuing with your other promotional strategies.

 

If it helps explain the process... submitting there isn't like dropping a penny from the roof... in that case you know the outcome... it WILL fall to the ground.

It's more like firing off a "Letter to the Editor" to a local paper. Once submitted it either will or won't get published, and only the guys that run the paper get to decide which ones they'll use. Re-sending it multiple times afterward isn't likely to increase the probability, and could actually decrease the chance it'll happen.

That is neither a condemnation nor a defense of the process there or of your actions, just an analogy of how the system functions. Good luck.

 

You are not alone.

 

There will be no way for you to have your site listed on DMOZ with that adsense banner right in the "center" of your site, you can wait another 5 years and there will be same result...

Just 2c!

 

Fortunately, the presence of Adsense banners has nothing to do with whether or not a site is listed.
The only thing that matters is whether or not the site meets the simple criteria for inclusion, which can be summarised as the oft-repeated phrase

"having sufficient unique content to add value to the directory".​

To quote from those guidelines (with my emphasis):

Also, for those feeling frustrated that their "submission" has not been "processed", please remember that the pool of site suggestions is nothing more than a place where editors may look for good sites. It is neither a priority nor a requirement for volunteers to look at such suggestions, and thousands of good sites are added every day, without being suggested at all.

 

Don't waste your time with DMOZ - it's pure luck to get listed there.

 

That banner is fairly new.... in the first 2 years if not 3 I had no ads at all!

 

I hate that website now! No one responds to emails, and it's impossible to get anywhere on there!

 

Eugenef_1 it is just not worth fretting over.
That statement created a picture of you in my head stomping your feet & shaking your fists, like a kid not getting the candy they wanted, no offense intended, but that is the message I got.

In the time you have spent posting your frustrations at not getting a listing, you could have gotten several links worth more than the single link from the Dmoz.

 

Wow...

Nebby must be wrong again, lol...

 

I never said it was perfect, just contradicting your incorrect assertions.

Perhaps Christopher this statement might if you try really hard (have that nice relaxing cup of tea we spoke about the other day)give you an inkling of why editors do not respond to the "why is my website not listed" question.

 

I'm sorry you are so frustrated, eugenef_1, but volunteer editors have learned from long and bitter experience that responding to webmaster emails (even polite ones, which are sadly rare), is unproductive and often distressing. In the past, such exchanges have led to harrassment, stalking, and even threats of physical violence against volunteers, so although some editors do respond with an explanation of the directory guidelines and policies, it is not the recommended course of action.

All the information about how, why and when sites are chosen for listing (or not) is freely available to everyone, not to mention thousands upon thousands of posts in forums such as this and Resource-Zone, so there is little to be gained by a volunteer spending time away from editing to say it all again.

Once again, I stress that many thousands of good sites are added to the directory every day, and only a very few of those will have been suggested by their owners, most of whom probably know very little to nothing about the ODP. So it is obviously not "impossible" to be listed in the directory.

Understandable frustration arises because the purpose of the directory and the priorities of volunteer editors do not necessarily meet the needs of the person wishing to see their site listed. That is unfortunate, but there are many other directories which are designed to provide a listing service, and where you are much more likely to get the service you want.

 

Again, what you are saying is that editors reply to something unless they don't because of various unstated reasons that no one but DMOZ is aware of? Yes, that certainly clears things up and makes it perfectly understandable as to why many believe there is NO customer support on ANY level. And then you call my posts pointless and bizarre

 

No I don't believe that I ever called your posts pointless. Was that a Freudian slip Christopher?

 

Well, you may as well have, nearly all of your replies to me claim that I am wrong, even when I am telling people to follow the guidelines to get a listing within the directory or directly quoting senior and NAMED editors. It's odd that no one other editors will tell you that you are wrong, even when you are spitting in the face of the ODP by saying it's guidelines are shaky...

Was that an attempt at calling my posts pointless?

 

You are doing that misquoting thing again Chris. It is your 10 point plan to get a site listed that is shaky, not the guidelines.

Not at all. It was an attempt to get you to admit that you think your posts are pointless. I suggest you type "Freudian slip" into google while you are having that nice cup of tea.