i have submitted my website in DMOZ at least 1 month ago but its not approved. how can i find its reason or contact editor?
You can, or at least should be able too. There is a contact link on each editor profile... though if you try to contact the editor you'll get a server error (or has that been fixed?)
Editors are discouraged from responding to contact, so don't expect a reply. But you can contact any editor, unless there is a server error and I don't deal with anything technical, by clicking on the editors name. If there is not one at the foot of the category any editor further up the tree has responsibility for categories below where they are named. I have to say that people contacting me don't change one minute when their site is reviewed. I am not influenced by people trying to put their site in front of my nose. But if you are complaining that you have not been listed in a month please believe that it can take from a few days to a few years before an editor chooses to review suggestions in that area. Remember your suggestions are just that, only a suggestion and as editors we use many resources to build categories. The suggestions pool is only one resource and sometimes editors would waste a good deal of time sifting through mountains of spam to reach a nugget, so they use other resources more. Remember too that we have never set ourselves up to be a listing service and their is no guarantee when a review will take place for any site and no site is guaranteed a listing. That may not be what you want to hear, but we are all volunteers and this is our hobby and there is no dictat on where one works within the privileges we have or how much one works (provided we edit one site in 4 months) or what source we use.
You can contact an editor. You actually can pay for geting your site listed, as it has been proved in this forum. But you have to contact the right editor for that. The thing is not every DMOZ editor is corrupted, so you have to find the one who accepts money. If you fail to do so and bribe the wrong editor, you site will be banned. Which, in the end, is the same as not getting listed at all. Which in turn is what happens with 90% of sites submited to DMOZ.
If the site has been suggested, you can do nothing else. Approaching jimnoble, or indeed any other editor, will certainly not aid your cause and if anything, can be detrimental. Your site may well be reviewed but we have no idea when a volunteer editor may do so.
If you look around the threads or read the stickie you will see that we are not a listing service. We invite suggestions of unique content sites from either the public or site owners. They are only suggestions and we do not undertake to review them for a possible listing in good time. It can take from a few days to a few years for a review. We do not advise the person suggesting a site if we have used the site or not. Once suggested there is nothing more that anyone can do to further promote the site at DMOZ, especially NOT re-submitting the suggestion. Hope this helps, thank you for the suggestion.
Yet strangely enough if you look in the ODP documentation it's a service for listing web pages. Go figure huh? Yet no one needs ever bother look at them. Go figure huh? Or in a bad time... in fact, some it seems are never looked at, ever, at all... Some pages even can be listed through bots in no time at all! Yet such things are reserved for editor pages. Which is strange that you (editors in general) post on places like this... if none of you care about the suggestions or those suggestions, why bother communicating at all? It's clear there is NO OFFICIAL communication other then the blog, so go figure huh? Strangely enough though, if you apply to be an editor they tell you to try try again... go figure huh? And thank you (the odp) for actually being human
If it's just been three months, it very likely could still be sitting there. Check back in three years, and in the meantime remember, they are not a listing service. Promote your site through other means, and prosper.
i have used procedure to submit my link, but the same condition, DMOZ not give approve to my website.
Dmoz can be a pretty strict. Your website has to adhere to their submission criteria. Otherwise, say goodbye to your approval.
Read the stickie at the top, it can take from a few days to a few years. We are not a listing service.