Just like the title states. Im listed on dmoz (according to many seo tools) but when i go look i cant find it. Any advise on what the hell is going on?
Tools are often wrong. They have no special way of telling if a site is listed. Go to DMOZ and put the domain in the search box. If nothing comes up, it is not listed, or was and has since been removed.
LOL, sorry. Just go to DMOZ.org and write your url in the search field. If no results come out, you aren't listed.
You can check if your site is listed by using our search for domain.tld without any http or www prefixes (eg google.com). The search runs from our approximately weekly data dump and so can be a week or so out of date. The definitive answer can be found by looking at the live category page - if you know the category.
They don't? LOL... The trouble with tools is that they are not the brightest of things, but they CAN tell if a site is listed, though seemingly not a page, or sub-domain, or category, or section, or something... Livejournal is listed, my blog on livejournal is not. Blogspot is listed, but my blog there is not either (but then, heh, it should not be) Geocites is listed thousands of times, but only one of my three pages is in. Yet when I visit either my blogs or any of my geocities pages ALL say they are listed according to my tools. On the other hand, my domains that are listed all show they are listed and all the ones I have that are not show they are not (give or take a week). jimnoble once again gave the best advice... check the cat for the most up to date listing status.
I said tools don't have some special "secret" way of finding out if a site is listed - meaning that if a manual search on DMOZ doesn't come up with the site, tools don't have some insight to pending listings and you should ignore the false positive. The OP was trying to find their listing because of a false positive from a tool query.
This is not true, I have many sites listed in DMOZ, you can do a domain search all day and nothing will populate, but yet when you go to that specific category then you can see the listing.
My site was added this week and not in search yet but based on what Jim has said , it probably isnt indexed internally yet. Thanks again guys!
Its the seo tool that is flawed usually. For example, websitegrader.com has a flaw like this. Perfect example: type chevrolet.com into website grader and it will say you have a listing in DMOZ then type chevrolet.org in there and it will also tell you you have a listing in DMOZ which there is actually none. Its not a DMOZ issue its the tool usually, because there is no way to query DMOZ by full URL with any accuracy, the tools do their best with what they have to work with.
Really? I do it all the time. Use our search for domain.tld without any http or www prefixes (eg google.com). One caveat. It works from the most recent routine RDF data dump, not the live directory, and so can be a couple of weeks out of date.