I suggested v4website to Google and finally got listed, but DMoz listing is not in my fate so far.... does it take years to get listed? Google sometimes takes six months to show you in search results (a rumor), but a project like DMoz should be efficient enough to do it more quick, in either case, negative or positive, the response should be quick, but it seems like they are not doing their job well. Are they doing their job well? How? Then what we are missing?
I submitted my website to DMOZ over 2 years ago and its still not listed. So yes, in my experience it can take years!
Well if you submitted it more than once, that was a good question because our guidelines for submitting say do it only once. Repeated submitting can get you listed as a spammer and banned for life.
Dmoz workers are not doing their work well then if it takes years.... How can they take years to include only one website? Surely they are missing the ethics of having a good web directory over the internet I guess.
yea, even my site not even listed in dmoz, i think this is the hardest part to get in into this directory!
I guess if you can get listed it helps but you hear so many stories good and bad that i gave up years ago,its just not worth the hassle and as someone else has mentioned why it takes so long is beyond me.Sites can be promoted in many other ways and are just as effective as DMOZ but take less time.
We are all volunteer editors at DMOZ and work in our spare time, so if you want to spend your spare time listing and catgeorising sites, please join us, the main reward for giving our spare time free is being told that we don't work well. See you when you offer to be an editor? Mega B the answer to why it takes so long is because people like you complain but don't want to spend their spare time, with no payment, doing this. See you too when you offer to be a volunteer editor?
Absolutely regards it can take years. Even if you have a genuine site which perfectly matches the directory subject area in DMOZ, you might never get in. It seems to be perhaps political in that the people who manage the catergories are choosing who they let in. Some sites I have submitted on the other hand have got in. There seem to be no rules for getting onto DMOZ.
The first one is that we are not a listing service. So if you start off believing that no site is guaranteed a listing and PR etc cuts no ice, you have grasped a few basics. After that believe that we are volunteers, no payment, working in our spare time at our hobby and that we have no interest in what value might be added to a site because of a listing, you get a bit closer. Then permutate into that we as editors are not told where to work, given the areas we are allowed to work in, so that when a editor chooses to build up a category, within their area of responsibility, it is their choice and we only have to do one edit every 4 months to stay active. Then you begin to understand, just one more thing we don't have to use the suggestions pool when we do work on a category, it is only one among many resources. The spam and useless sites in suggestions sometimes obscures the nuggets, but at some point we have to wade through it all. But it can take sometime before we get there.
You know as well as anyone that the guidelines are just that... GUIDELINES. If they were RULES then Topix would not be listed like it is (which clearly breaks SEVERAL of the GUIDELINES). So if you would not mind telling us with your VAST experience and knowledge of the ODP, why is it that one site must follow the GUIDELINES yet another site can completely ignore them... is it because that site is owned by an editor? If you are tried of me going on about TOPIX, maybe the luckymojo site will work... that has 35 listings and is owned by an editor. And yet, the OP of this thread should not be submitting more then once?
As I have told you before, we decide how many links a site can have after looking at the site and anyone seeking to offer a site differently than one link in topical and one in regional, if appropriate, may find themselves banned and not likely to have the links added.
Who is we? YOU are NOT an editor as far as I can tell, nor does it seem you are a webmaster... you mean the end user of DMOZ? Well, in that case, why are you here?
how's come you guys then get decisions like listing an parked domain , or a slashdot.org story about one domain who lived like couple of months . Well let's not talk about other hundreds of spam links from the directory ... anyway so far so easy to understand it's somehow selfish and aren't making anyone any advantage ... just give one more reason for everyone to think what they thing feeding their paranoia behind of the directory . The listings was supposed to follow the guidelines if I`m not wrong ... on that thread it's all old garbage's witch you and your crew keep promoting since years , we know all those guidelines aren't followed , well we see they aren't followed at all ... it's just a part of your deceptive advertising .