I've been waiting for a very long time to have several sites listed. Question though - will they notify me by email when they're approved?
are you thinking it will be easy to send you a notification very time a Big directory like Dmoz approves links ?
They are not obligated to reply for approval or rejection. In fact, they do not even have to look at user submitted sites! However, some do, and some will take it a step further to help get broken sites fixed so they won't need to be removed from the project. Well, I don't know about now...but at least one did up till I quit
Why does the submission form have a field for your email address if they're not going to use it? There's no reason not to notify on approval.
I can think of several. Here's one: The person who suggested the link may have given a false email address, and so the recipient treats the acceptance message as spam. Only way round that is to run through a form of email address confirmation at suggestion time. And that is a load of hassle for some well meaning passing soul who is just trying to suggest a website.
By the time anyone gets approved they probably have changed email 4 or 5 times. That means DMOZ's server would get cluttered with a lot of undelivered emails. As they like to say, they are not a submission service, and they don't want webmasters to bother them. Furthermore, since the vast majority of their links aren't worth more than most one-way links, the lack of link approval notice is a way for DMOZ to acknowledge how little the link is worth. I.e., it's not worth sending a email.
That's pretty damning. I mean, if it's not worth sending a templated email, what is the value of listing the website in the first place? Why even bother to switch the servers on?
AOL seems to agree. They kept the server off for 3 or 4 months, revealing to the world that they do not consider it worthy of a puny backup.
Sorry guys, we do not notify when a site gets updated automatically that is. Yes it would be down to the discretion of the editor to notify sites, I generally out of being courteous do, plus I can give hints to the site on a few improvements . Before you ask I only look after the 'open source' links, therefore if you have a web development that is open source then I can approve your link.
If you post the link someone might get back to you... You sound like a nice guy, but between you and me, it's not worth fretting over, or bothering people with. You're free to try anyway. ;-)
Where should I post the link? I have a few that I've submitted, they're very good quality sites, reputable businesses
Post it here, there is no harm, it's not like you're offering to bribe someone! All you want is a status report.
You would post then to the most specific category that you links would fit into. Make sure you have a good look at the guidance prior to submitting, if you stray from the guidance I am afraid your link would end not getting updated, i.e, there is too much hype in the link. The best way is to submit it from the perspective of a 3rd party who saw the site and thought, hmmm I like this i think a will do a neutral plug to dmoz.
Pretty sure you only need to submit the link... That's a total myth. Nearly 100% of all DESCRIPTIONS have to be completely rewritten anyway, if not for style, for consistency, fairness and accuracy. If you wrote an outlandish description, or a straight description as best you can, it's the same work for the editor-link-approver. Even with a modest write-up the editor-link-approver still has to check whether it's correct and representative of the site's content. Also, almost half of site TITLES have to be rewritten... Any editor that suggests that you waste your time getting it right is on an ego trip and just wants to show you who's boss, and make you feel guilty when the site isn't approved for 5 years. Don't waste your time, let the editor-link-approver waste his time, since he enjoys "editing" so much. There is no advantage to spending time writing a good description. If you use all-caps and go crazy, the editor might be ticked off that you're not bowing to the procedure, and might not even look at it - but then again, he might pick you out of the lot just for the fun of cutting you down to size. There is no predicting. So don't go crazy with superlatives, but don't waste your time!!! It won't make any difference, and you can't tell which way the wind is going to blow by the time they get to it, hopefully before man sets foot on Mars.