submission fustration #2

I think my editor has died?

[fashezee]

I have been monitoring the directory I wish to be included in and there has not
been one site added to the directory (ODP) in the past 5 weeks.

Is this normal? What should I do?

[edited by: fashezee at 3:36 pm (utc) on Mar. 26, 2003]

[creative craig]

If you mean with the ODP have a look over at resource-zone and ask them if there are any problems.

Crai

[rogerd]

Individual categories may be as much as a year or two behind, fashezee.

[fashezee]

a year or two behind?

Only if they would review sites as fast as they deny my application,
the web would be a better place.

[edited by: Laisha at 5:03 pm (utc) on Mar. 26, 2003]
[edit reason] We don't do "Sticky Me" requests in this forum. [/edit]

[creative craig]

Go to resource-zone (search for it on Google) and ask if they can tell you what is going on. They have a forum where you can ask about the status of your site submission.

Craig

[cornwall]

fashezee

You could always try cutting out the middle man, and apply to be an editor yourself

[Laisha]

I had to delete several posts here this morning.

I would appreciate it if you all would please take a quick look at our charter [webmasterworld.com] before posting further.

Thank you all for your understanding.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programing...

[John_Caius]

cornwall - I think that "Only if they would review sites as fast as they deny my application" means that he has already applied unsuccessfully.

[fashezee]

I just got word from an editor from resource-zone that there is 175 sites
in the queue and that I should wait atleast 1 month before ASKING about my status
again. :(

[John_Caius]

The editors at resource-zone have to edit too - if they kept checking everyone's site status every few days, they'd have no time to edit and you'd stay in unreviewed for even longer. That's a standard and fair response from them.

[cornwall]

and...those noble people at RZ specifically point out that they can/will only tell you whether your site is in the queue.

They will not expedite your site's application process merely because you post there. It remains in the queue along with the n other applications, unless and until an editor comes anong to edit that category.

[rfgdxm1]

>a year or two behind?

Yep. Not at all unusual at the ODP. While I don't think that long is the average, that your site hasn't been reviewed in 5 weeks isn't at all unusual.

[tim3562]

I submitted a site to DMOZ and it got listed in 4 days, maybe I have a better editor in my category

[Visit Thailand]

Considering this is a worldwide directory I am pleased there are some people that can submit at all.

I always get the "we cannot determine your ip" or it just hangs.

[tedster]

In February I had one site acted on after waiting 8 months from the submission date. I honestly had given up on it - and then one day I noticed the ODP category sitting there at the bottom of a Google search result.

At the same time, I've seen inclusion in less than a week. Feast or famine? You betcha.

The ODP may not operate at the pace we would like. But sometimes, in some categories, that's just the way it is. I never promise a client anything about ODP or any results that might depend on it. It's better that they be happily surprised, rather than irritated. After all, it is an all-volunteer, free directory -- and the web is a HUGE place.

[aagha]

I've been waiting for four months for my submission. My category has 1 editor. I e-mailed her, but no luck. So, I e-mailed my category's parent editors, and no luck.

[tigger]

As Creative Craig said Go to resource-zone and ask if they can tell you what is going on.