I got listed in Dmoz a few weeks ago and that's fine. But I thought my site should also appear in Google and AOL's directory, doesn't it? It returns results if I search for my site but it isn't *listed*. Please advice.
Google Directory takes feeds from DMOZ... but only when it feels like updating which may be anywhere from 1 to 4 or 6 times per year historically, or whenever it feels like it, much like the public PR updates. I wasn't aware that AOL even used DMOZ.
I'm sure it used to but I can't find anything on their home page now so if it is there it is very well hidden. Not even a link to their DMOZ subsidiary. Nothing I could find on the Netscape site either. So DMOZ has non-reciprocal advertising of both.
The link to the directory is in the footer of the search results and search.aol.com No links to become and editor, etc. http://search.aol.com/aolcom/browseIndex
Interesting - the version of the AOL index page I get has a search that says Powered by Google, no AOL Search link. I presume someone has added them to the license violators category...
This listing is interesting: Computers/Internet/Access_Providers/AOL/ www.aol.com (February 23, 2006)
When you pay for the servers I don't suppose having a category to yourself with 58 links is too surprising. It does include half a dozen critical sites too. But they have missed a trick by not listing all the national portals too - aol.com redirects for me to aol.co.uk and by not cooling aol.com (the attachment of a date to the URL is restricted to things like news articles and media transcripts, not to force an URL to the bottom of the listings). At least they give Yahoo 36 listings in 3 brand exclusive categories too.
I was referrring to the url only listing without a description as it appear to be an error, not the category itself or the quantity of listings.