i wonder if someone coul write complete guide to submit links to dmoz and other directories so that the listing happens soon as possible and doesnt get rejected.
Tips 1, 2, and 3 in that article look fine to me. Tip 4 is a bit misleading and inaccurate. If your websites consists of: ads, links to other websites, affiliate links, affiliate ads, lots of advertising (more than 2 small ads per page), offsite links, spelling errors, poor grammar, long download times (more than 20seconds), broken links, bad words, hatred, vulgarity, racism, links to porn, poor web design, lots of animated .gifs (more than 1 per page), huge page sizes that require left to right scrolling, any pop up ads, huge photos, too many photos, forced 'add to favorite' script, forced 'join our newsletter' script, any forced script, any script that changes a visitors web browser in any way, activeX anything, redirect of any kind, incorrect page title, incorrect page description, irrelevant key words, key words that are spammed (appear more than once), hidden script, hidden text, forced icon changes and ANYTHING ELSE WHICH MAY ANNOY A WEBSITE VISITOR - you will not be listed. Most of that list won't get the site rejected. Excessive quantities of some of them might count against a listing.
thanx brizzie .. humm i applied twice/thrice in 4 months .. would rejection chance be increased ?? cuz i think i filled everything right and my site qualifies to be listed also ... but its been like 3-4 months and its not yet listed , i wonder when it will be listed
Submit once and forget. Tip 4 suggested it might be weeks or even months. Reality is that it can be years. Submitting more than once does not help and in certain circumstances could delay listing but it is unlikely to increase the chances of rejection.
thanx brizzie for the info .... i got one more question .. can a editor on dmoz edit in any categories ??? or only the one he applied for ?
an editor can only edit in a category he/she has applied and approved for along with any subcategories. There are some editors that can edit the whole directory.
jjwill ... thanx .. just waiting for my site to get approved .. i think it will take way long .. thanx all for the info provided
Don't hold your breath, asterix! MOST websites (I have about 20 languishing in various queues) do not get REVIEWED, let alone listed. All of my websites are eminently listable, there is not a thing fishy in any of them. They are simply unreviewed. And unreviewed they will remain for a long, long time. YEARS. All twenty, and future websites, too.
There are submissions that are over three years that have not even been looked at do to a lack of editors - so it can take days or years before it is even looked at. Make sure you submit to the most appropriate category. A large percentage of people submit to the wrong category. Editors are supposed to forward it to the correct category, but that can put you back to the end of the review list.
Another thing that can help (as well as submitting to the most relevant category) is writing a coherent title and description. With long lists of unreviewed in some categories, editors browsing them are more likely to select a site with properly written title and description. Despite advice to the contrary on the "suggest a site" dialog many sites are submitted with something like Bobs widgets–discount widgets Widgets, Widgets, Widgets, Widgets, and more bloody widgets. We also sell Widgets. Editors are not supposed to delete such submissions but submitting in this way does nothing to aid speedy inclusion.
What utter crap. What is a "properly written title" for search engines and visitors to a website is not generally going to be considered acceptable by DMOZ - editors are going to rewrite the description and titles of most sites according to idiosyncratic DMOZ guidelines anyway. No competent web designer or webmaster in his right mind is going to create a site with the kind of title DMOZ likes. What exactly is it that you do when you're not being a mor... I mean DMOZ editor, neb?
You really need to calm down and take a minute before you make these posts. If someone wants to speed editors including sites in DMOZ (which is what we are talking about in this thread) then it might not hurt to include a title and description that is consistent with the ODP guidelines. What we are not talking about in this thread is the "idiosyncratic DMOZ guidelines". However I do agree with you that the current policies for describing sites are not perfect, and often are unhelpful to those who either use or would like to use DMOZ data.
You're not a webmaster or web designer or SEO guy, are you, neb? Let me say it one more time: Nobody in his right mind is going to set up web pages with titles and descriptions that conform to the DMOZ rules. Nobody. And I assume that you're not suggesting some form of "cloaking" involving creating DMOZ-only pages just for submitting to DMOZ...
I see your misunderstanding. It is the submitted title and description to which I refer. No one is suggesting that people modify their site.