I was just going through my backlinks and noticed a DMOZ backlink today. After 3 months of waiting, I have finally been accepted into the DMOZ directory. It seems like they were adding new sites while DMOZ was down? For those who are stil waiting to get on DMOZ, try checking to see if your site is listed. Theres definitely something happening.
Editors have been able to edit for a few weeks now. So sites have been getting into dmoz again. But whether your site will, really depends on whether an active editor went by your category - and your site is listed under 'unreviewed'.
I was going over the sites listed in my category... it seems like editors prefer site descriptions to be short. Would this have any effect on whether a site gets listed or not? PR seems to not matter as my site is still a zero.
No nothing new in travle and you still can't submit new sites...perhaps it is still dead...just a few twitches as it finally expires.
No, it's not dead. Editors have resumed working on the directory since late December. It may be that an editor has not looked at the category you suggested your site to or a it maybe because of a number of other reasons.
It does help if you write a title and descriptions according to the ODP quidelines. Editors will tend to look at those first. The descriptions tend to be shorter than most would think, leaving out all the unecessary marketing verbage.
At best, that's a myth, at worst, hogwash. No matter what category I was editing, whether glass or chipmunks or costume jewelry, every single description had the be re-written. Hype, hype, hype, and the occasional allcaps. In fact, the requirement for webmasters to write a description when submitting their sites ought to be dropped. I sure wasn't to read 200 bad descriptions just to find the one that was acceptable, and process that one first. That would have been a waste of time.
Perhaps it has something to do with where you are editing. I know that most Shopping suggestions are so full of LOOK HERE!!! type descriptions, but I've seen a couple that are very close to listable. Descriptions that are close to listable really stand out when I'm looking through the categories. However, if I'm operating in a next, next, next mode - they wouldn't. But if I'm looking for duplicates or doing some QC work and I run across a guidelines compliant description - I usually stop and look at it. I've actually added one or two suggestions that I didn't have to rewrite (not in Shopping though) - and then I emailed the person who suggested them and asked if they would be interested in applying (that's how rare they are ).
Guidelines compliant descriptions stood out like a red rose in a field of white carnations in the areas I worked. One glance at the submissions and I could see right away if a description was guidelines compliant. Because they were indeed rare, when I saw one, I was compelled to review it right away.
I long for the day that one of my sites gets listed but I am getting to the point after 2 years it will never happen
You can boil a compliant description down to a formula. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of a competent volunteer programmer to devise a smart submission process that creates a compliant description from checkboxes completed by a submitter. Automated submission programs wouldn't like that either. It would solve a lot of problems.