Getting into Dmoz help

We have submitted our teen forums to dmoz around three months ago and it hasnt been listed. We have followed the guidelines and not used any promotional language etc and even tried submitting a second time. We still havent been added to dmoz and consider our site quality as well as a great resource too.

Are we being impatient and just need to wait longer and is there anything we can do to get our site into dmoz?

Thanks.

 

there are sites that waiting for years to be get listed in DMOZ, Dmoz editors wake up occasionally

 

I guess we just have been impatient with this. Thank you

 

Don't submit more than once, it can put your site back at the end of the end. As stated, it can take years before your submission is even looked at, and while a DMOZ listing is worth the time it takes to submit, it isn't going to give you a huge boost in rankings, nor will it bring you very much, if any, direct traffic.

 

I guess it must be better to gain one way links elsewhere then

 

Well, as we are all volunteers, we can sleep on the "job"
As I have previously remarked, I have added over 25,000 sites to the directory, which meant I was awake quite a lot of the time, but of those, only a thousand or so were suggested by other people.
So, as I have already written in 2 adjacent threads

 

but
not to clean the sites that are already expired ..

 

IMHO, just wait longer until the editors include your site.

 

Quality control is just one of many activities undertaken by volunteers, and there are automated tools to help with this, but we always welcome assistance from non-editors in reporting dead or hijacked sites.
If you know of any, please report them using one of the simple methods frequently mentioned here.

 

I've been waiting months for my website to get listed. Nothing happend yet. IMHO I don't think it will do me much of a favour anyway. :S

 

DMOZ these days is not site based its now luck based seems. I really dont know why we are giving that much importance to DMOZ, just because it is respected by Google? We submitted lots of sites to DMOZ and lots of them got listed within 1 or 2 weeks time and many didnt get listed for years and believe that didnt got listed were really very good sites then what got listed.

 

Based on what?
Please the explanations I have already provided in this thread and others.
The fact that webmasters seem to be unwilling or unable to accept the simple fact that DMOZ is not a listing service is not "proof" that the directory is valueless, and certainly does not mean that sites are listed/not listed by some random or malicious process.

 

What is it then?

From the ABOUT page:

Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content.​

WHAT? When did that start to happen?

The Definitive Catalog of the Web​

WHAT? When did that start to happen?

The Internet Brain​

LOL... do I even need to continue?


Define directory of the web and we may be on to something... but if you use the example of ANY directory then the ODP you may find that the definition of the ODP is just what you keep saying it's not