Go visit dmoz.org and click on 'add your url' 'add your entry' or 'submit your website' link and folow the steps and fill out forms.
need to hire someone for such job?lol If you are quite new, its a very less chance to get in dmoz. Make sure you read the guidelines and act accordingly .
he asked for a step by step guide!! Step 1. Go to http://www.dmoz.org Step 2. Go to the category you think your site best fits Step 3. Click on 'suggest url' Step 4. Complete the form Step 5. Forget about it. move on. do something that will actually help the site. don't obsess over it
Be very careful regarding the category you will choose and have a look at the other sites listed in the category you choosed to make sure they are very similar to yours (not too similar because you won t be accepted otherwise)
But don't believe that DMOZ only lists sites that are suggested, editors building categories do not have to use the suggestions pool at all, so be prepared for a long wait, perhaps. Can take from a few days to a few years. But don't submit again, the site will not be lost, you might get branded as a spammer and banned. Submit and forget. Promote your site elsewhere there will be nothing more you can do at DMOZ after submission to speed up a listing. Good luck.
Or FORGET TO SUBMIT as seen by the beginning of Anonymously's post... (Bolded by me) See, don't submit, or submit just ONCE... it's really all a catch22. I'm sure there is at least one editor out there that feels if you don't submit then you don't want a listing so only adds sites from the queue/submission pool. Other editors wont use the queue/submission pool at all. Some editors of course get sites from any place they can (including the queue/pool, and even here on Digital Point)....so how you get added it purely a crap shoot! Indeed!
Very true Also make sure you have a simple and neat title , description. Its helps us understand the site better and lessen our editing work. Personally I like to wait and arrange those who submit to my category first then after that if there are no more submissions then I'll go and search for a great site. What I mean with a great site, content alone is not enough though. Lol.. this is inaccurate.
When you look for a category to submit your site too, I agree with InsightReiki, you have to go down. Top level categories are there just for $some people$. (This keyboard is mixing the symbols? haha) Take into account that some categories at DMOZ are abandoned. You can easily find out by checking the sites listed. If you find spam sites, 404's, and sites not updated in the last eight years the category is most probably unmaintained. You can see the last update at the bottom of the page. If the category was updated recently while having sites like mentioned before, the editor who updated it left the sites purposely which would be even worst. There is little chance of getting listed in DMOZ and selecting the right category is a fundamental step.
Very few sites are ever listed in top level categories, just because to cover the whole subject in one site is nearly impossible. Certainly go to the lowest category that your site fits, because if you don't do that the reviewing editor will simply send it there and it will wait for another review. So there is no advantage and perhaps a real dissadvantage if you don't find the right category and submit there. Some categroies are not looked at as often as we would like, but having a named editor means little, my name is on several categories that I have not had time to work for several months. In some categories other editors have done some work though. The page does tell you when it was last edited, but that might have been by an editor using a bot to check for and finding a site whcih is 404. Our bots are usually quite efficient on 404's some other things are a bit more difficult, but you would be surprised what they do catch! But removing a 404 from a category records an edit at the bottom of the page.
I think it is best to buy a dmoz listed site because it is really very difficult to get listed there. In case anyone want dmoz listed site, I am selling one of them.
Do remember that any site can be removed and any site that changes is likely to attract that attention. Buying a site does not buy your way in automatically.