7 years trying to get listed in Dmoz i give up

I hope you were NOT thinking daily whether today you have been got into DMOZ or not ? "lets check it"

 

Brand New Domain -- got listed in 2 weeks ...

Some categories are backlogged .. yes thats true .. some don't even have editors yeah thats true ...

but not accepting new sites for years ... stop talking as if you know ANYTHING ...

 

for me it was easy to get listed in dmoz years ago but now i never try getting listed at dmoz.

 

Hey.. i just got listed. (Yesterday or today) Perhaps, because I asked in a german Dmoz-Forum and an editor read it or the editor read an email, I worte to him. He didn´t answer.. but i got listed. Fine!
Sometimes, you just need to wake up someone.

 

Well, I guess that answers my question.

I followed the guidelines very, very carefully. Submitted twice, I think, in about three years.

I'll give up, too.

 

its no use, i dont understand why people are dying to get listed on DMOZ, i mean , come on man, its just a high PR directory, just use a different PR7 directory...

 

not exactly. Google trusts DMOZ because it's human edited (humans do it better). DMOZ is the king of all directories.

 

I agree, move on, buddy.
But this is really funny: 7 years and no result...

 

welcome to the corrupt world of dmoz - just add your site to - www.ihatedmoz.org

 

Agree with this....It took me 3 years for one of my sites. And I do not recieve any traffic at all from dmoz...lol...I spent months worried over this and nothing at all gained from it once it was approved.

Good luck

 

dmoz doesn't bring traffic; it's a directory and directories don't generate too much traffic. All you get is a good IBl and nothing more.

 

Dmoz thanks for the tips! yup i do give up on demoz but for some reason i still want to be listed! after all this . maybe its because its because i have been around for 7 years ..

anyway you guys are sooo great i just love the feed back on this topic..
thank you sooo much Ross!

ps i have never like a forum soo much! this is my first forum that i posted on in years! its great...

 

7 years


I've been waiting for 2 years...

 

You are reffering to the infamous shoemoney dmoz shambles, in my view i think the whole thing was a linkbait plan that either
a. got out of hand
b. worked very well
depending on how you look at it, either way shoemoney and dp got over a 1000 links each for it.

 

My site got listed almost straight away...

 

and another urban legend is born...

 

The problem may be that while your content is good, the front page looks spammy. Also, the category you should submit to is likely swamped with submissions. In other words: become an editor yourself.

 

My experience is that if a sites been around long enough and has plenty of traffic, it somehow pops up on DMOZ anyway....

 

You are actually wrong, editors say themselves that following the guidelines is shaky advice!

There are no guidelines

Seemingly, you can completely ignore the guidelines so long as you have unique content.

Getting a listing in the ODP falls down to a game of chance where the true variables are the whims and wiles of the editor that happens across a given site within the queue.

Submit and forget, or forget to submit ~ the wait time for both is about the same. In the meantime, a submitter should work on promoting their site by other means.

 

Actually, getting into DMOZ has been a lottery for some years now. It's well worth trying to get in, but really, it isn't something to obsess over because the administration is so bad these days. If you can't get in to the category you want to, try getting into your local town or village category. I got into the East Molesey category - I mean, who'd think there was one?

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