My experiment with DMOZ

I have submitted many of my sites and still have yet to be listed in DMOZ.

So, I've decided to submit them all again, including my content rich article blog on Internet Marketing (Which should get listed because it's a great informational site)

Wonder what will make it in, or will any of them?

 

Good luck. Even though DMOZ sucks and it is useless to most. I mean have you ever used DMOZ to find anything?

 

Lol, every site submitted to the DMOZ is an experiment.

 

You resubmitted some sites...Which part of this is the experiment...?

 

My site that is worth while, my marketing blog. There is no reason why it shouldn't be accepted.

 

How are you going to tell if it hasn't been accepted?

 

periodically check the category or similiar categories

 

Just so you know - this "experiment" might be going on for a loooong time.

Some sites are reviewed within minutes while others review time is years (soon to change to decades )

 

would dmoz email you if it got in.

 

There is no standard "acceptance" or "rejection" email. Sometimes editors will send personal emails - but I wouldn't count on it.

 

Yeah, that's really hilarious, lmocr

Any DMOZ editor with integrity should be embarrassed by that, not amused by it.

 

How many sites are pending in DMOZ?

 

We don't really have those statistics. We can see the total number of items in unreviewed, but that includes many duplicate submissions and dead links moved out of the public directory. Hard to guess how many live and listable sites are awaiting review. A lot! When you take into account the sites that editors go looking for themselves, the number of sites that could be listed and are not must be in the millions. An editor's work is never done.

 

With a minimum requirement of "one edit three times a year", it never will be...

 

I knew you'd say that. But seriously...

There is no end to the job, because the Web is constantly growing and changing. In fact upkeep of the existing listing takes an ever greater amount of time as a directory grows. Other general directories face the exact same problems as the ODP.

The near-impossibility of the task is of course the very reason that search engines evolved. Still, as long as SEs cannot quite mind-read the wishes of the searcher, the directory has a place.

 

Well who do I have to contact to get my site listed? The editor for my category is fortune.

 

As I have said many times before (although perhaps not recently), that is the primary reason I think DMOZ is ultimately doomed - it falls farther and farther behind the point of real utility for anything except backlinks every day. That said, you could at least keep the goal in sight for a while longer with policies that were a little more rational. Think how much time and energy would be saved by simply dumping the Adult categories entirely and letting the Admins and metas and editors focus on other parts of the directory.

I have also said in the past that I am convinced that the era of the general directory is dead. I do think people will still use human-edited niche directories if they can be convinced that the editing produces real quality but I don't think anyone is using general directories (no, not even DMOZ) to find anything these days, other than those associated with the directories.

 

You don't contact anyone, you submit it to the best category and move on to something else.

 

What is the expirment part of this?

 

I don't think you need to get "DMOZ"ed to get good amount of traffic or links to your website. Sure it helps, but getting backlink is way better.