Dmoz Approval

It takes AGES. Submit it once and move on to other things.

 

I would add here that I submitted several sites to DMOZ, around 5. Three of them are accepted. I noticed what is required is to have site with interesting content. It took abut 3 months for approval. Also, first I noticed jump in Google, and asked myself why is it. Then I noticed my sites in DMOZ. Whoever has good sites should give a try to DMOZ and be patient.

 

Does anyone know why although my site (smoothping.com) is listed in DMOZ:

http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Gam...Multiplayer_Online/World_of_Warcraft/Servers/

It does NOT show up when searching DMOZ, nor does it show up in backlink tools like:

http://www.submitedge.com/pr.html

Any thoughts on this?

I believe my site was only listed in the last week or 2.

Is there a delay in when the site is listed on DMOZ to when it shows up in searching?

 

yes..........

 

Any idea on the delay time for this?

 

Yes, there are many sites actually.

.SR

 

Hi kobekkat,

Two of my sites are listed in DMOZ about two months ago and they also don't show up when searching DMOZ. If you search in Yahoo and write
linkdomain:yoursite.com you will find your site in DMOZ indexed by Yahoo.

 

The DMOZ search is not primarily a search engine, but more a tool for finding categories, so if you want to use it to find a particular site, you have to use just the domain: example.com . If you use the whole URL (http://www.example.com) it will always come up with no results.

However, AOL seems to be having some problems with things at the moment, so the search database has not been updated as frequently as usual. I think it is currently a couple of weeks (definitely not months) behind the actual directory, but editors know no more about it than you do, I'm afraid.

 

Just attempt to add it then forget about it.....go on 4 or 5 vacations then check it in a year.

 

Looks like dmoz just updated the database. Showing up now!

 

It can take upto 6 month . DMOZ is very strict with site quality.

 

The longest I've seen it take is about a month

 

Hey, I think your site does not meet their guidelines.....Otherwise, they would have published it within 2 months, That is sure.... I have got listed there for my few sites but for some other sites get rejected by them

 

Sorry, but there is absolutely no basis for this assertion. There are no time frames involved, and no promises made about if or when a suggestion will even be reviewed by a volunteer, let alone if or when it will be listed.
Therefore, there are no conclusions that can be made based on elapsed time.

Remember that suggested sites are nothing more than one resource editors might use when building a category.

 

Yes. I submitted qlWeb.com a few months ago and just got approved a few weeks ago:
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=qlweb.com

 

In fact, as it was added to the directory more than 6 months ago, it is far more likely that the site was found and listed by an editor who did not even see your suggestion. That is the way most sites are listed, as I have explained.

 

My site http://themelib.com just got approved yesterday

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=themelib.com

 

I submitted my site in january but still my site not aproved in dmoz

 

Does it matter what kind of site it is? Is a blog easier to get listed?

 

DMOZ takes time to get your site listed, its done by volunteers. I have a site I submitted and its taken almost two years to actually make it in the listing.

BE patient if you followed the submission rules correctly then you should see your listing appear.