Please read 1. the stickie at the top 2. Other threads on here 3. In particular the thread you started.
Try uploading some content. 20+ posts and some affiliate links for some sports products is probably not going to cut it.
In response to the orignal question: Being an editor can have some advantages. You get some say in creating categories for instance. One website of mine wasn't getting listed in some directories that use dmoz for their data. I worked out that it was because the viillage it was based in wasnt considered big enough to have its own category so my website had been listed in the higher, county level and the spiders weren't noticing it. I became an editor of several villages in that county, encouraged some local businesses to start websites, did one myself for the village and requested the village category be created and became its editor. I think we probably have a higher ratio of websites to people than most places I declare all my interests so its all legit as far as dmoz are concerned. I log in about once a month to check whether there have been any requests for listings and keep my categories up to date. I may get 1 site every 2 or 3 months submitted or passed to me by other editors. I do have a little look for others at the same time. No down side - I get no hassles nor any bribe offers either Go for it
I strongly recommend against people wasting their time on a worthless and useless enterprise such as DMOZ. If your goal is to be USEFUL, there are many ways you can ACTUALLY help in your community, and make a difference.
Nope - my goal was to ensure my site was listed and that the category it was in was correct. Why do you think it's worthless - all the search engines use it... But I agree if you want to help your local community there are much more useful things to do - but each to his/her own..
Interesting - why do you think that ? Google's directory is based exactly on DMOZ - they refer to it as the ODP. They say so on their site (http://directory.google.com/). My website was missing from it as described in my earlier post. Once I had the new category introduced and my website put there it appeared in Google's directory. Try not to post stuff unless you know it to be true. There is just too much rubbish being repeated out there...
You said ALL the search engines use it. That is incorrect. Google doesn't use DMOZ in the algorithm that generates the SERPs, which is the die-hard misconception that took root in reality in the late nineties, but is now alive only in the mind of small webmasters that aren't keeping up with the times, and the reason why people keep fretting about DMOZ links. They are fretting for nothing. I know this to be true. My brother is a KB engineer for an un-named search engine in Silicon Valley. You can take my word for it.
According to the ODP documentation it is used by MANY search engines, but if you head over to such search engines and check it out you may just find NO REFERENCES to the ODP what so ever... what does this mean? Either that the search engines used to use DMOZ data in their searches or the ODP is lying to us. How to tell the difference? Well, just look around at the posts of many of the editors around here and make up your own mind.... personally I think its a mix of both. Yes, Google does use the ODP data for it's own directory, but then it also often goes over a year before it bothers to update said data... does that imply it's important to google? I certainly hope not!
And it looks like the Google update has recently occurred, at least for a few cat's I've looked at, and it's been maybe 6 months since the last update.
Actually, Matt Cults just made a comment and statement regarding dmoz. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/05/10/will-dmoz-continue-to-have-a-place-in-search Make of that what you will
Clearly he's making an apology for the reason why DMOZ is still displayed, even if it's deep in Google's steamy bowels - for the occasional speaker of Tuareg. And he's telling you to go get link elsewhere. I did crack up when reading Bob Keating's pipe dreams; he's hoping that his rag tag team of "volunteers" can beat Google at exactly Google does better than thousands of humans ever could, and at the virtual speed of light. Good luck to you, Bobby Doowop!
Hello Everybody , i m a seo guy and i m selling links and i m an editor in 2 directories and one of them is dmoz . i have +90 websites and never listed any of my websites myself . i submitted them manually like anyone else does and 8 of my 90 websites are now listed in dmoz directory .