Hey everyone, My site was just added to Dmoz directory. It took A LOT to see this happen. Those who say you have to submit your site there and forget about it are right... Now, I have two questions: 1. If the site was added to Dmoz should i find it in google directory also? 2. Even if the site was added to directory why I get no results when i search for it? The site i'm talking about: http://www.wowjuju.com Dmoz listing: http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Roleplaying/Massive_Multiplayer_Online/World_of_Warcraft/ Thanks in advance for your answers.
Google is one of the users of DMOZ data, but they have their own schedule for updating their content, completely unrelated to DMOZ. In other words, sites listed in DMOZ will eventually show up in the Google Directory, but only Google knows when. The DMOZ search engine is primarily for finding categories, not sites, and in any case it usually lags a bit behind the live directory. If your site is listed in the directory (which you can see for yourself by looking in the category), it will show up in a DMOZ search in a day or so, but you will need to search using just the domain name (without "http://www"). I hope this answers your questions.
Acceptance into dmoz=1 very small step in high ranking within serps. You should be doing on site and off site seo, also be constantly building high PR relevant backlinks. Reasearching competiton is also a good way of finding exactly what you will need to do to rank high within serps. Anyway I am still waiting on my acceptance though I was lucky enough to get accepted into yahoo directory. Keep working at it and building links remember their is a trillion unique URL's out their so to beat them you will need to do a lot of work.
I can confirm, if anyone else have the same "problem". After addition to dmoz I was added to google dirrectory in about 2 weeks and also the search both on dmoz and google dirs can find my site now. Cheers.