ODP I hour inclusion!

The fastest inclusion I ever had!

[Nick_W]

Just got a site into dmoz in under an hour, fantastic! And a nice note informing me of the inclusion of course.

Nick

[tigger]

and to think I was pleased last week when I had a site listed in 4 days, with no editor as well.

I wonder if the editors have been given a kick up the rear

well done :)

[Marcia]

Something else nice I just heard about. Someone wrote to the editor of the category he's in (a local one) to request a category change. The editor wrote back, from his/her own personal email, explaining why the change wasn't made, in detail. And also complimented him on his site and the service he's performing with it for the internet community.

Nice news Nick, congratulations!

[Nick_W]

Cheers.

Not my site, I'm due to start a re-work of it so thought i'd give the enevitably long ODP inclusion a kick-start now.

This to was a local (danish) catagory.

Nick

[onebaldguy]

I have submitted 4 sites to the ODP with about 1 month time span in between. The first was about 6 months ago, yet none are included. They are all listed on Yahoo, which makes me confident they are quality sites. Could they have blocked my inclusion since I tried to submit several sites from one computer? More importantly, does the ODP care if one person sumbits a large quantity of sites, even if they are all relevant and should be included in the directory?

[Nick_W]

Well, I've submitted a number of things over the past 48hrs and the one mentioned in this thread got in okay so i guess it's not a problem.

Nick

[JamesR]

Some editors really take pride in their categories and do wonderful jobs editing. I am glad that they get some form of recognition, all we here about is the bad ones usually.

[korkus2000]

I submitted 3 sites 2 days ago. 1 took less than 12 hours(regional cat). Another just got listed and I am still waiting on the third. Something is going on.

[Knowles]

I submitted ohhh on monday I guess. I still havent heard anything but there is no editor on the exact cat but the next level up there is. I have actually talked to him and think I know him. Its a very niche cat which doesnt have a lot of submissions most the people in the feild dont have a clue what DMOZ is but I am still waiting.

[Quadrille]

>> does the ODP care if one person submits a large quantity
>> of sites, even if they are all relevant and should be
>> included in the directory?

No, in general.

Unless the submitter is 'trying it on' or making interesting errors, or submitting a batch to a usually 'quiet' category, I never even notice them.

If there's a lot of spam, I might check to see if the submitters email matches the domain, or if it is an obvious spammer (not that it helps - but it's nice to have one's assumptions confirmed!)

If the sites *are* relevant (ie correct / near category) and should be included, we're grateful in a general sense; we don't expect to know the submitter, so that's probably as far as it goes.

[kujanomiko]

Regional categories are amongst the most well-tended, probably because no one wants to submit there because they want to hit cats like Business, Shopping and Computers. :)

People don't realize that it doesn't matter *where* you are listed in the ODP. Very few people (except those who want to check on their own sites or editors themselves) use the ODP search. In addition, I don't know anyone other that editors that use the category heirarchy in their spare time to look for sites.

When it comes down to it, the RDF doesn't discriminate on cat you're in, but whether or not you are in the ODP at all. Same with the search engines.

[Hawkgirl]

Nick: under an hour!? I'm in awe. Will you come by and touch my keyboard - I need some of your luck to rub off on me. I have a few sites I've been trying to list (some personal, some professional) for months in ODP and I usually don't even hear 'boo' from editors after I've emailed them politely (and 4 to 6 weeks later) about my submissions.

What's your secret? And will you play the lottery for me?

[EliteWeb]

Congradulations to your quick inclusion into the DMOZ directory (: I have also received quick addition to the structure. It goes to show that some editors really do live up to being an editor for their catagory. Those are the people that should be doing multiple catagories but usually only take care of one!!

I have submitted some sites to multiple catagories to which they appropiately were associated or contained massive content on the subject and 6-8 months later some of them were added. Some cats just arnt maintained that well or the editors a few level above have so many to take care of it takes way longer than usual.

[Nick_W]

Sure! Pay my ticket from Denmark to Texas and I'll bless your keyboard ;-)

It's a regional catagory, I got another site in about an hour later so I guess the danish editors are just nice and enthusiastic about their catagories. Good for me certainly!

Nick

[jimnoble]

I listed a site (in UK/Rgional) within 20 minutes of submission this afternoon. It could have been 15 but for the unavoidable flash intro and the mystery meat navigation :).

I'm not claiming obsessive dedication here - I just happened to be cruising by shortly after it was submitted.

[dukeblue219]

I just got my site listed in under 6 hours, pretty impresive. I might just email the editor to thank her.

[Marcia]

>Regional categories are amongst the most well-tended, probably because no one wants to submit there because they want to hit cats like Business, Shopping and Computers.

I can't apply for the regional category I'd like to edit because once about 8-10 sites would be added that would be the end of it.

I'd be considered a dud for not contributing more, but that's all there are altogether, there would be nothing else to add.

[skibum]

Lately I've ben getting some really fast turn around times, but then there are those that have been in the queue for close to a year. Submitting to regional cats does seem to speed the process.

[victor]

Skibum:
but then there are those that have been in the queue for close to a year

Hi. I'm an ODP editor and I've held some submissions in a queue for almost a year...

Why? In my case there are three reasons:

1. The site is essentially a construction site: one page (usually) of which the main content is "this site is under construction". I check these once a month or so; but is is surprisng how many never get completed (or maybe it isn't: maybe there is a subclass of web developers who were construction workers in a past life).

2. Site lists an event schedule with no event more recent than last year. I suspect the site is an abandoned ghost town. I'll check it monthly or so, but it needs recent content to get into that cat.

2. I'm not sure exactly if the site belongs to my cat or another. I've emailed the submitter/owner for details and am awaiting a reply. It is possible that they've given an email address that routes through to null. But if they don't reply, I'm not going to action.

Surprisingly again, for the one-yearers I have, no one has resubmitted or queried the delay.

[sabre23t]

Ref what marcia said "I can't apply for the regional category I'd like to edit because once about 8-10 sites would be added that would be the end of it."

I believe that's the ideal Regional cat size to *start* editing in. Just big enough cat to have some variety of sites to describe, and not too big to have huge unreviewed waiting to be dealt with or worse, spammed unrevieweds to sort through.

In 1 or 2 days, you've added all sites. Then you can clean up the titles & descriptions of *all* sites (easy since they're not many) in the cat up to guidelines. Get a cat check from more experienced editor. Then you're ready for to apply for another cat. ;)

Further marcia said "I'd be considered a dud for not contributing more".

When your current cat is all mined out for new site, and while waiting for approval of new cat application, you can add new sites for the prospective new cat into a cat in your Bookmarks first.

So, marcia *go* and apply for that Regional cat to edit, and (back on topic ;)) get the inclusion time for submission to that cat to be less than 1 hour. hehe.

regards, sabre23t =^.^=