How long on average to be listed in DMOz? If you are accepted or denyed, do they let you know. I submitted a site along time ago and never heard anything. Thankyou
This is a difficult question to answer, as on a lot of applications that we have made, on a number of occasions we never got listed or received any correspondence. In the event that you make a succesful application expect a long wait before you are accepted
The numbers of listing are going backwards in the English language categories and there is a seven digit queue of sites waiting for review. The directory is growing, virtually all of the growth in non-English categories, at a rate of maybe 200,000 listings a year. So average? Over 5 years by the looks of it. No. But if you are accepted it will obviously appear in the directory and you can see for yourself. Edited - depending on the category you are far more likely to be listed by your site being found by an editor on another site or Google search. So focus your marketing elsewhere and a listing may come from that direction rather than a submission.
HahahahhahahhhaaaHAHAHAHHA!!! That would be a rare editor, with an actual interest in the category he or she is overseeing, that would not rely solely on the submission queue! I remember a time when I was involved with a major re-organization of the Jewelry (/Art and /Shopping) categories. I don't own a single piece of jewelry, metal gives me terrible skin rashes. And there are hundreds of thousands of little websites selling crummy jewelry. If they didn't bother to submit, I sure as heck wasn't going to look for them. Not my personal interest. I did the re-org to help the directory get up to date and make more sense, not to "build categories." My main topic was Glass. I was building categories there, but I have since learnt that any editor that knows two cents about his chosen topic is viewed with suspicion, submitted to extra scrutiny, and witch-hunted if need be.
I have submitted at least 30 sites in the last 20 months, most of them not even mine, and in a variety of categories. Only two have been listed. Since I was once editor, I am pretty sure they were all listable, all excellent, the description and title needing no significant modification, and submitted to the proper category. Your chances are probably somewhat worse than that. That's why people think getting their site listed is worth a whole fresh new thread. It's like a unicorn sighting.
A couple of the last editing tasks I did. I was looking for a new car and had a look at the relevant category, and added all the sites for missing manufacturers, submitted or not. I wanted to change my energy supplier to a green supplier - I found quite a few sites on the subject and added them. At some point I recall surfing for info on electric vehicles and found quite a few sites that I added. For my last year of editing I would guess 90%+ of my edits were added that way and not through submission queues.
As we are discussing practices on finding good websites I have found simple post on newsgroup would flush out many good websites totally hidden from public - this way I got some excellent sites which I never heard off or run into on Google - this is useful technique both for personal use and remaining DMOZ editors although I seriously doubt anyone will ever volunteer for niche categories I use to maintain.
There will be no improvement in DMOZ as long as most of these what they call "Senior Editors" would always try to pattern themselves as the Prime Editor Example. It's always " I am and This is what I do" this freaking ticks me of.
a friend of mine had submitted his site in DMOZ and he recieved the denyl email after 2 months and I had submitted my site to DMOZ about one and half month ago and still no reply........ I think that getting a backlink in DMOZ is just getting impossible...
First your friend was lucky to get an email telling him the site was rejected - editors don't usually send emails of rejection or acceptance. Second, check out other threads here - over a million sites waiting for review, about 200,000 listed a year, probably only half of which are found elsewhere than submission. Work it out for yourself. Bollocks. There are not enough editors but plenty of spammers - that is the reason why there are so many unreviewed sites and editors look to other sources for sites. A very small number ask for payment and all of those I have ever come across don't have the editing rights to place sites anywhere but a small niche no-one is interested in. I.e. it is a fraud. And offering a bribe is a quick way to a complete ban.
This question can not recieve an answer, because different editors edit different categories at different times, so there is no way to know
Nonsense. The answers are as follows: 1. anywhere from one day to never, with all possible values in between 2. no Hint: "i before e except after c"