I popped open my stats this morning to see that I'd had a referral from a DMOZ page.... so I followed the link and sure as day there was my first ever link from DMOZ only 22 months after I had first applied. Anyone waited longer than 22 months and got approved?
I don't think I've ever had a site accepted, nor have I ever got an email telling me why a site has been rejected. As far as I know, all my submissions are just sitting there in limbo.
I believe that they removed the ability for submitters to determine if their submissions were rejected/lost.
We used to be able to check in the RZ but they have now disallowed that facility as Will has said. http://resource-zone.com/forum/
They stopped checking on submissions at resource-zone but they aren't an official part of DMOZ. DMOZ rules haven't changed, any editor can still give you an update.
2 days ago i saw a referral from dmoz and followed it but they rejected me again. and the answer of your question is 3 months. i have waited 3 months for rejecting me again
You don't know that for sure. There are a dozen or more reasons why an editor might look at your site and make no accept or reject decision at that time. Many editors skim sites looking for obvious spam or skim them for outstanding instant adds. Sometimes they move sites to other category unreviewed pools. They might be reorganising a category and moving unreviewed sites around. Does your site meet all the general and category specific listing criteria and is it the most comprehensive original source on its subject - that is the way to get accepted.
i think that i meet all criteria i wrote and i wrote on http://resource-zone.com/forum/ and i'm checking my topic
Well it was nice to see my site under the UK W section for web design. Seems there are only 50 sites listed there.
I've had a site listed in weeks, and one that has been in the review queue for years, I believe. I know this because it got a referral from an editor, months after I had already believed it rejected. Early on, someone moved it to the wrong category, and I know that because it was back when you could still ask about site status on Resource Zone. I guess it's been moved again, probably to another unsuitable category. That's the trouble when you have a site that doesn't exactly fit in one of the categories that they already have. The lesson with Dmoz (and many other directories) seems to be that if it's a one-of-a-kind site that's hard to place, it will take much longer to get listed.
Well I reckon my site has only been approved now because I've redesigned it to look a bit more professional and removed all adsense ads. Adsense ads seemed to be a big no no and I only had them on the site when I had too much work coming in to cope with.
They are not a problem unless they dominate the page or the site appears to be designed primarily for Adsense.
I had adsense ads in front of your face and really nothing else until you scrolled down a little to see content when my site was approved into dmoz so I don't think there is connection between ads and dmoz approval ... more likely your site has to be of quality information ... not some junk hehe like most sites are