I have registered several times with DMOZ but I never received an email and my page is not listed. Has anyone else had this problem?
I also have a few sites that had no response, I gave up, no point because you cant even get their editors or anything. There are better things to do nowadays.
As far as I can see they list only mature (in terms of age, not adult ) sites with good content. I managed to list some sites of my clients recently but these are more than 5 years of age and (after I tweaked them ) got solid content. There is a site of my own, which is only PR2 and not very old, and although the content is quite good, they don't want to list it. This is my personal experience and possibility is that it doesn't reflect the situation of different DMOZ categories, because as it is human-driven, there always be a human factor and a bit of "I like it - I like it not" involved. So, keep building and be patient.
Your best advice is to make a submission to the ODP/DMOZ and then forget about it. If you get a listing, it's a bonus. The value of the listing from a Page Rank or SERPS point of view isn't as big as some would like to make it out to be. It's just another backlink that Google uses. Making a submission doesn't take that long, and then forgetting about it even less effort. You will, as a rule, never get feedback from the ODP about a suggestion, unless you happen to see it listed in a category. Frustrating for webmasters, I know, but it's the nature of the beast that is DMOZ.
There would be no reason for an editor to contact any of you about whether they reviewed your site and listed it, found it unacceptable and deleted it, or just told you the site hasn't been reviewed yet, but it's waiting.. You may wish it, but, it has absolutely nothing to do with building the Directory, or what an editor does. If editors answered queries, for every 100,000 site submissions, there would be 400,000 to 500,000 queries because there are at least 4 or 5 questions that could be asked about each one of them. So, instead of a backlog of 100,000, there would be a backlog of 500,000 to 600,000. That would help neither the editors nor the submitters. I don't think you understand that where you're dealing with 1 to ten sites, editors are dealing with several hundred thousand sites. That puts an entirely different perspective on things. The editors who have high enough permissions and experience to deal with those large numbers are limited, and those who are real workhorses, may be able to knock out a hundred a day in short spurts, but you soon get burned out, and we don't have just one number to deal with as more and more sites get submitted each day. It's like a cat chasing their tail. It's an unending treadmill.
There's no big mystery involved, nor a conspiracy, just a common misunderstanding about the nature of dmoz. I'll take a quick shot at clearing it up, maybe it'll help. Mostly just a matter of misplaced expectations. ODP has decent link juice, though the value of that is sometimes overstated, and there will be some direct traffic from it but not likely any more than any similarly ranked directory. Unlike the pay-for-review directories, there isn't an employee on the other end who has a paycheck that won't come if he doesn't review your submission, make an up or down call, and send you notice of same. Similar results to that of a dmoz listing are available from any one of a number well ranked pay-for-review directories. If someone wants a guaranteed review in a swift manner and a response afterward, drag out a credit card and submit to Yahoo or BOTW or any one of the many others that actually offer that. Dmoz never has, never pretended to. Basically a matter of the pay-for-review sites being able to provide that benefit cause they have income to guarantee there's a guy there to do it. As has been said above, best thing to do is submit to Dmoz (it costs nothing but the time spent on the entry) and then move on to other forms of getting your site in front of people. Worrying about it is a waste of time, it isn't the death of any website if they don't get in, and it's a nice freebie if it does. That's pretty much the whole story in a nutshell. Good luck.
I am the President/Owner of McKeon Engineering and Associates, LLC with main office in Orlando, FL and would like to have live links there to boost visits to my site as well. Also, why don't I have live links here? Have enough posts and have been here long enough.
OK, I can't answer the DigitalPoint issue. Have you submitted your site to the ODP in the correct category? You may be eligible to two listings - one in the Topical category where your firm fits best, and once in the Regional category where your office is located.
See the sign after your username ? Says Peon. Wait till it howls and says Grunt. By the way Mr. President. If you need links for your company, I'm sure you will be welcomed by a lot of peeps in the Directory Section. Even sig links there are for hire.