How long does it take for once website directory to be approved within Dmoz network of directories? I have submitted my site since Dec 08 and have not heard from them since.
If your site does not have Quality and does not follow there guidelines it is very difficult to get listed.
Hello, Well, sometime, it can take long time, or sometime you will never be listed, take your time.. Best
days, months, years???? Most of the time its takes a lot of time> 6 months to get included unless you know an editor there. 50% people are waiting for over a year to get them listed on dmoz.
My site got listed on the first try, within two months but I've listed others without much success, so it varies widely.
IMO if you can not get listing within one year, Just possible the reject your site or still waiting on the quene. It reAlly suck that why dmoz don't let people whether the submission accept of not, Dmoz is non-touchable at all...
I had a good page rank and relevant site that i tried submitting to dmoz for months and months and never got in. I was pretty mad until I submitted another website of mine to a totally different category. Luckily it was added within a month of me submitting it It all depends on the category you are submitting to.
I hope you followed the clear instructions and suggested your site only once? As the form clearly explains, repeated suggestions may be regarded as spam. You can also read on this forum and many others that editors find sites in all sorts of places, so there is no need for them to waste time thanking everyone who suggests a site. Besides, those suggestions are nothing more than one resource the volunteer can use if they want to, and reviewing them is not a priority at all. Yes indeed, tens of thousands of sites have been listed in the last year alone. Some of them were probably suggested by webmasters, but the majority were found and added by volunteers. That's what we do. What an amazing statistic, and obviously invented, because such data are not available anywhere at all, inside or outside DMOZ. It also shows a complete misunderstanding of the way DMOZ works, because it suggests that sites are listed only if they have been suggested by others, which is absolutely not the case, as I have explained above and elsewhere. There is no "queue" of sites "waiting" for "approval". The concepts are meaningless.
I just spent the morning dealing with around a hundred or so update requests from submitters, and yesterday I think I added 40-50 sites. I don't usually keep track of the numbers. So, there are editors working, if that encourages you at all. Of course I deleted a few also.
There are hundreds of thousands of sites being suggested all across the 590,000+ categories in the Directory. Many editors only edit in small categories, others only in certain areas of the Directory, and others roam across the whole width of the Directory, so it's a bit of hit and miss all the way around. But our prime objective isn't neccessarily to list those, but to build categories that we find personally interesting to work on. Depending on your level, editors have many other jobs to do, besides adding sites, either by finding new ones on their own or reviewing site suggestions from the public. All of the other work has to be done, also, so we're pretty much free to choose which work we want to deal with in each editing session. The broad array of tasks that need to be done will never be finished, anymore than the public will ever stop suggesting sites. There is no end to the work. The short answer to your question is from a few days to a few years because there is no way we can predict when an editor will be editing in any particular category, how many other site suggestions there might be there, how long the editor will work there in each editing session, or whether the site suggestion is even one we want. (meaning will it be a good resource to list for that category, not all are). I have a personal interest in editing this category: http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Gardening/Gardens/Water/ So there are no site suggestions from the public waiting there, they've all been reviewed, and if the public suggests one there, and it's one I think is good, it will be listed in a matter of hours, not days or years. In the mean time, I may go out and find new sites on my own (which is very easy to do), or I may edit in the many other categories I have editing permissions in.
There is no time define for that how much time dmoz takes. It depends when an editor will reveiw your site. There is a lot of website submited to dmoz on daily basis.
I also have tried many times a no. of sites but DMOZ didn't appove it yet... Some of them are quality sites as well and have complience with the guidelines too... DMOZ never tell what and why site is rejected or not... I think thats the mistry to be solved...
I see. So you simply ignored the instruction to submit your site just once? The consequences of excessive submissions are clearly explained, but apparently that did not deter you. Only some of them? Why waste your time and that of volunteer editors by suggesting sites which you already know do not meet the Selection Criteria? And yet you wonder why volunteer editors don't spend their time explaining clear advice and instructions that you have already ignored more than once.
I just re-read the OP and there is obviously a typo or language issue in this sentence. If I interpret this correctly, are you asking about the submitting a directory site to DMOZ (perhaps the one in your signature)? If that is the case, then from what I understand, assume your site has been rejected as the bar for a directory to be listed is extremely high.
To answer this PM publicly. Every site is valid and of great worth and importance (to the owner). Contacting an editor privately isn't going to get them listed, we're not a listing service. I have editing permissions in tens of thousands of categories, so I couldn't list them all here, but I have a very special interest in two of them that I would most certainly be interested in getting more sites for. So, if any of your sites deal with Water Gardening or playing World of Warcraft (A Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), please feel free to list them openly, right here, and I'll look at them. Not for you, personally, but for the sake of those two categories and the information seekers who are interested in those two topics. Editors can and do list new sites wherever they find them, whether it's here or on the side of a truck. If your sites are for other topics, then submit them to the Directory the way everybody else does. Editing is a hobby for me, and World of Warcraft and Water Gardening are two more personal hobbies of mine, so I would be very excited to get new sites on those topics. Editors build categories to create a really good resource for people who also have the same interests. Anything that would be of great value to me as a water gardener or game player, will also be of value to other people who have those hobbies. With over 600,000 categories, not every category is going to have an enthusiast like myself staying on top of it, it's just not numerically feasible. The other tens of thousands of categories I do have permissions to edit in would spread anyone a little thin to stay on top of, it just can't be done, but then, our goal isn't to review every site submitted or even most of them, it's to build categories that become good resources for information seekers. That doesn't require speed, but care, and as we're not a listing service, it doesn't require that the Directory be all inclusive, but just keep trying to improve each category as we can. A listing in the Directory is not promised to anyone (let alone a speedy one), nor is it your right, only the opportunity to suggest a site to us for consideration is guaranteed, and it will be listed at our sole discretion. Nothing is owed to the submitter but a thank you, which you get.
It is not so complicated. Some of my websites made it to DMOZ. You need to have a website that is somehow different from those already included in your category. Proffesional and detailed content should help a lot. It can take some time 2-8 months. Just made it interesting and worth to see and you can see yourself in dmoz.