Just had a DMOZ editor visit my site

When to expect a decision?

[dan_popescu]

Hi
I submitted my site to DMOZ about 6 weeks ago. Today I checked my logs and I had a few visits from a DMOZ editor. How do they do this? MY site's not in. Does this mean NO? Or should I wait a few more days before drawing any conclusion? Is there a notification?

Thanks,Dan

[Beachboy]

Try going to the category in which your site should be located, see if it is listed. If it's just been added, you probably won't be able to locate it by doing a search. Good luck.

[dan_popescu]

Beachboy,
I just did that, it's not in.

[jdMorgan]

Sounds to me like an ODP editor is working on your submission. That's better than never seeing them looking at your site at all! Who knows how long it will take? It varies wildly. But it's worth the wait!

If you are patient, your ODP listing will get you into just about every U.S. search engine, including several of the the normally-pay-to-get-in ones.

Hang in there!

Jim

[dan_popescu]

Thanks.

Dan

[quiet_man]

Hope this isn't a daft question, but how do you know it was a DMOZ editor that visited?

[Added: No, you will not receive notification that your site has been added]

[Beachboy]

The editor no doubt visited from within the Dmoz editor control panel, a reference to Dmoz will show up in the logs.

[Air]

Couple of possibilities:

If the site was to be listed in the category it was submitted then it would have been listed right after the visit, unless the editor felt it needed a title/description change first, in which case s/he might have kept it in unreviewed for another day when they felt up to making the title/description change.

...or, the editor felt it belonged in another category and moved it there (perhaps a category in which s/he does not have edit privilege), in which case it now awaits another editor.

So it's hard to tell what it means, unless, that is, you find it listed :)

[dan_popescu]

Quiet-man
I could see it in my logs as Beachboy said.

The editor also visited some of the pages that are not related to the category I submitted the site to. The thing is, I submitted to one category, but, being a ecom site it also offers some other stuff that belongs in other category. So, I don't know. I hope this won't be a reason for them to deny my submission.

Thanks,
Dan

[dan_popescu]

By the way-DMOZ seems to be down right now. Been trying to access their site for 20 minutes.

[The Contractor]

See [webmasterworld.com...]

[ggrot]

Out of curiosity, how long ago did you sumbit>

[Quadrille]

The editor also visited some of the pages that are not related to the category I submitted the site to. The thing is, I submitted to one category, but, being a ecom site it also offers some other stuff that belongs in other category.

Many editors will look at a few pages when they review a site, especially if the site title / description / or category shows some inconsistency. The editor would be trying to get a feel for the site "as a whole", as well as formulating a suitable description.

It might well be, on a mixed content site, that the editor disagrees about the category, so it could well be queuing elsewhere. Sometimes, it is difficult to classify a site, and sometimes it really is marginal.

But it's well worth trying to get it right - the further from ideal, the more editors will have to see it before it gets accepted.

For example, a site on the (UK) Ford Capri, submitted to Society/Politics (stranger things have happened, believe me!), is unlikely to find an editor who knows if it's a Recreation, Business or Shopping site, let alone *exactly* where in the hierarchy it belongs. And the more editors, the more chance of meeting one who thinks "That's a very silly submission" and hits delete.

Not that I'm suggesting this applies to you - I've not seen your site ;)

[fashezee]

How did you notice that a DMOZ editor looked at your site.
Just by the IP adress?

[dan_popescu]

GGROT
I submitted about 6 weeks ago

And yea Fashezee, just by the IP Address

[NameNick]

fashezee,

As dan_popescu already said or it could also be noticed by the referer. It would look like this:

http:// dmoz.org/editors/editunrev.cgi?site=XX& ...category

NN