Listed in dmoz but not coming up in search

[aagha]

Question: It seem that my site finally got listed on dmoz (yaaay!), but when I do a search for it from the front door, it doesn't come up? Why might that be? Will it just take time?

If I search for other people in the same category, they DO show up, and they show up in multiple categories! What do I do to achieve the same results?

[takagi]

Two remarks:

1. Some time ago I read the index used for the search function on the public side, is rebuilt about once a week.
2. If the url of your site is: www.mydomain.com search for mydomain.com (i.e. without the "www.")

[kctipton]

Search is updated now and then. Once a week is highly optimistic; once a month is typical.

[whats up skip]

Does anyone know when the last update was done?

One of our sites has been in there for around two months now. If you do a search for mysite.com then we show up in the search, but if you do a search for any of "keywords" in the description then it does not show up. The same is the case if you do a search via the Google directory.

[kctipton]

Do a search at ODP and scroll down to the bottom of the results page. The date of last update is published there.

[martyt]

Glad this question came up -- I'm in the same boat, having been added to DMOZ in early May. Yet, there's no search term in the world that will bring up my listing -- not mysite.com, or the name of the site or any of the keywords that should bring it up. Heck, I can go directly to the category page where it's listed, type in the site name or mysite.com and do a "search within this category" and *still* get nothing. This stinks.

And I note that the last update was in April, well over a month ago.

Apparently I picked a bad time to bring my new website online -- between the Google problems, difficulties finding my site in Yahoo's directory and dmoz's slow update, it's a wonder anyone finds my site at all.

Hopefully the PPC budget won't run out completely...

[steveb]

martyt, not coming up in the dmoz search is not worth thinking about for two seconds. dmoz is not a search engine. The search function is primarily for editors attempting to correctly place sites. The public doesn't use it hardly at all.

Being listed in Dmoz is a good thing. Not coming up in the dmoz search for a few weeks is completely trivial.