Odp

How long before additions/deletions show up?

[kris]

Once a site is removed from the ODP by an editor, how long does it take for the changes to appear 'live' by searchers? Several spammy sites were supposed to be removed over a week ago but are still showing up in directory searches.

Is it possible that the editor has deleted them but the changes won't appear the the public for a couple of weeks?

[choster]

Public pages (i.e. the html pages on dmoz.org) usually reflect editorial changes almost immediately. Rarely, the public page regeneration script becomes backlogged, but almost never for longer than fifteen or twenty minutes.

Unfortunately, the internal dmoz.org search engine is only rebuilding its index about once a week, and at least once or twice recently it has skipped a week due to RDF generation problems, so many new listings will not appear in a search and many old, deprecated listings will.

[kris]

Thanks choster. The sites are still showing up in the public pages, the html pages you see when drilling down through the categories.

I will follow up with the editor of that category.

[cgmendla]

Choster,

Thanks for the info. A couple of days ago, I submitted 3 different sites to DMOZ. One was listed within 2 days. The other 2 are still not listed.

Your explaination of the processing cycle helps.

Thanks

[Laisha]

Hmm...I've found that lately, it can take up to two weeks to actually appear when you drill down.

[twoline]

I believe there's a difference between how long it takes for the cat editor to review and publish the listing and how long it takes from when the editor pushes the "publish" button and when the entry appears in the cat and then the search listings.

So it could easily take 2 weeks for the editor to even review your listing, or longer if there's no editor in that cat. If you submit to a cat that has a large backlog, you could theoretically wait forever for someone to look at the listing.

[nat]

It took me several months to get my customer's site in DMOZ, but it finally happened. Haven't got the Google boost yet, but it's just a matter of time now. I think they had the misfortune of being in a high-spam and editor-free category. Just when I'd given up, too.

[cgmendla]

This might be a dumb question, but... when should you resubmit to ODP?

There does not seem to be any type of status checker at the site.

Chris

[Beachboy]

If you don't get action after a couple months, resubmit it. If you still don't get any action, send a polite query to the editor of a higher level category, ask him or her to take a look at your site. Or, alternatively, make sure your domain appears in your profile here and post a message in this forum asking one of the many ODP editors to find out what happened with it. If the application was deleted, the editor might well have indicated what the problem was.