Short answer: You don't. Long answer: Its just a waste of time even trying to submit to them. Just submit once and then forget about it.
i also try to become editor and they send me code but their code is not accepted by them-self. I can't believe in DMOZ
1. This kinda belongs in the DMOZ forums. 2. Getting listed is simple. There are three ways it happens: A. They just list you. B. You submit your site and if its worth a damn, it gets listed. C. You provide appropriate compensation to an editor in exchange for the listing.
One more tip. D. Don't use Adsense on your site, it lessens your chances of getting listed...unless your site is very popular. Just an observation.
You can ask at Resource Zone http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showforum=10 if there is very much of a delay in replying to an editor application. Meta editors who deal with new applications frequent that forum. You will always receive a reply to an editor application, unless something has gone seriously wrong. Good luck, hope you were honest, checked carefully the guidelines, made sure the category was right for the sites you suggested and declared ALL affiliations.
First of all, the links will give you ZERO traffic, and quite possibly no PR boost, so they are a complete waste of time. The notion that DMOZ links are "special" has been nothing but a zombie that won't die and eats people's brains since 2002. If you applied to become an "editor" you've wasted a great deal of time for nothing. May I suggest that you invest some of that time on reading up about CURRENT SEO practices? If any guru suggests that you seek a DMOZ link, run! They don't know what they are talking about, and merely repeating old voodoo from a decade ago.
so you don't think the fact that the Google directory is still powered by ODP is important? also, i remember many years ago lots of web designers used to build their own directories by using the ODP "feed" or whatever it was called - basically a system where you could download all or a section of the ODP and have it as your own directory. does that still happen and, if so, doesn't that increase your backlinks a lot if you are in ODP? or is ODP really now a waste of time?
You can still download using our RDF dump. Accreditation is required but use is free. DMOZ always was and always will be a great resource for those wishing to search using categorised and collated links, but that's not surprising it is why it exists.
This sort of implies you want to become an editor for your own benefit. That's not quite how it's supposed to work. If you get rejected, that may be the reason why. A. - is probably the best way to get listed. B. - Lots of good sites get submitted but not listed mainly because an editor hasn't gotten around to it. Unfortunately there are tens of thousands of submissions that will have to take a long time to be reviewed. C. - I just don't think this is a big problem as there are way too many other reasons for not getting listed. Not being reviewed is one, and a site's not being worth much is a big reason for rejection. The Google listing is important to the extent any other link is important. A link is a link, so don't completely discount it. Those ODP clones still exist but don't deliver any traffic or benefit that I can recall. Goog has long ago discounted most all of that junk. Also when you do a search, how often do you see those listings? Even the Google directory often isn't in sight for many searches and the DMOZ dir. hardly shows up at all anymore it seems.
I read a comment the other day (not here!) that says "if you get listed in DMOZ then it can bring lots of traffic to your site." That's a huge bunch of lies... Submitting your site to DMOZ is a waste of time and to be an editor is next to impossible!!
True, dmoz is pre internets era. Its a complete waste of time. Nothing else. Yahoo directory for example is 100x more powerfull.
If Jim Noble is around I am sure he will tell you that he accepted hundreds of new editors when that was his working area. You do talk nonsense.
They have gone months without bothering to update it. In fact, they once went over a year! The ODP directory used to also be linked from the front page of google (or close to that) and now it's rather well hidden. yes, and search engines penalize duplicate content now... so how much worth do you think the exact same link is worth that's listed on 100 identical pages? My guess it would likely be worth about the same as a link on a single linkfarm. Directories in general are now not worth what they used to be... now add that with the duplicate content and WHAM... you ain't got much. Well, Google also used to suggest that you submit your site to the ODP... they have removed such a suggestion. So I guess it depends on who you ask
If you look closer you might find that the search DB is updated regularly and the category listings are generally updated every few months, which it recently was in the last few days. Just an observation.
I submitted one of my sites to DMOZ. Actually I've submitted more than one section of the same site to DMOZ. They got added, no idea how long it took. This site has adsense but it is a nice, tame site, 100% original and quite worthwhile. The first link was added in 2003 or 2004, I forget. Anyway, once I added I ended up with my site listed in every directory from here to Timbuktu because of people mirroring DMOZ. I've submitted my most recent site too about 2 or 3 months ago and if it gets added, that's nice. If not, so what, it is gradually building organic links anyway. Again, its a nice, worthwhile, original site.
It seems we agree for the most part... and yes, even when they took over a year to bother with the update searching still often found sites. I suspect it's due to them using their own search (site:dmoz.org) rather then the internal search of the ODP (which is actually slower then the category updates by a strangely long time).