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I don't received any feedback from dmoz about my listing.
What should I do?
Who is the editor I should talk to in this case?
Please help.
I wish you luck! I am at least listed in DMOZ but when applying to have the site title and description changed, well should I say after another email sent to the editor of the category (sent 4mths later) I got nothing but abuse back threatening to remove my site from the directory and to *STOP* mailing them!
Customer service is fantastic NOT... And I am the first to congratulate them on the voluntary work they do and admire any person for time they spend on some kind of project like this.
Huh... sorry had to be said ;)
Anyway apart from that I think most replies you get will advise you that the w8ing time is something like months behind depending on the category you are trying to get into.. Things that can help you see the time to expect are: is there an editor in the category you wish to be listed in? If not then it’s a long wait...
Again as I said before I wish you luck.
KR,
-gs
Go and ask at Resource Zone (search in Google).
Or simply look at this forum's charter [webmasterworld.com].
Afraid you never will
Listing can take anything from 5 minutes to years. Just depends on when a volunteer editor gets round to reviewing it.
In all honesty there is little you can do about it, except for becoming editor of that category yourself.
Resource Zone will only tell you if it is still in the queue (in other words if is not in the queue, you have either failed to submit properly or it has been zapped as unsuitable). They cannot doing anything about expediting your request for listing
I read the forum charter and to my utter amazement came across:
> And please remember: No whining is allowed. :)
Does that mean that 90% of the posts on this forum are inappropriate? :(
>>Does that mean that 90% of the posts on this forum are inappropriate
Only you and I seem to offer appropriate posts, and sometimes I worry about you ;)
Just used that link to the ODP forum...
Very good source and quick to reply.
Thanks for that link :)
-gs
A little nuance here: the guidelines still say that if a site hasn't been listed in several weeks, you can submit again. [once!]. And don't take the "back of the que" too literally, since editors don't have to review sites in any particular order.
Most editors probably "triage" -- that is, take care of the obvious culls, misplaced, spam, and rejects; then take care of the attractive-looking "keepers"; then finally look at those sites requiring careful review or major description rewrite. Sometimes a resubmittal with less obnoxious description can move a site from "problem cases" to "attractive quick reviews."
Duplicate submittals often make more work for us, but occasionally can even save us work. So don't resubmit unless you have a good reason. But if you have a good reason, don't hesitate to resubmit.
If so, this really isn't appropriate behavior for an editor. What he should have done is just deleted the update requests. It is logically possible that a competitor could keep submitting frivolous update requests to annoy the editor so much that he would delete your site. Thus, the editor should just ignore them.
This is exactly how I handle a pile of unrevieweds in a cat. Thus, your best bet to get reviewed the quickest would be to submit with a good guidelines compliant title and description.
