Just can't seem to get listed

After 6 months still not listed

[AJames]

I just can't get my site listed on DMOZ.
I run a store and have managed to get listed on Google, AOL, etc, but just can't get listed on DMOZ.
I'm sure I’ve done everything correctly.
I've found the right category, entered the correct details. I have done this several times over the past 6-8 months to no avail.
Does anyone know who could contact to find out what I’m doing wrong.
I have tried emailing the editor, I know I shouldn't, but have had no reply.
If anyone can help, I’d be very grateful.

Regards
Andy

[ukgimp]

Hello AJames

Welcome to WebmasterWorld

What you are experiencing is not uncommon. Some categories are snowed under and some done even have an editor. It can just be a waiting game.

Good luck

Cheers

[edited by: NFFC at 8:55 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2003]
[edit reason] As per charter [/edit]

[fathom]

Hi AJames & welcome to WebmasterWorld.

If the site in question is the extention of your email - you're doing quite well without DMOZ.

Be patience and keep doing what you're doing - PR6 (mainpage) is very respectable.

[AJames]

Thanks peeps
My site is <snip>

Andy

[edited by: NFFC at 8:57 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2003]
[edit reason] Sorry Andy, no specifics please [/edit]

[steveb]

go to resource-zone.com

[rfgdxm1]

I am an ODP editor, and just went through many hundreds of unreviewed sites in some new cat space, quite a few as old as 2 years or more. Best place to go is resource-zone.com. There they could likely tell you if your site was still in the queue or rejected. If you submitted to the right cat, that is the MOST important usually. Otherwise your site can sit unreviewed in the cat for more than a year, at which time it gets moved to the bottom of the pile of another cat.

[AJames]

Thanks for all the replies. My site is now listed :-)

Regards
Andy

[ukgimp]

Strewth AJ

How did you manage that. I just got told that one of mine was in a queue :)

Well done

[AJames]

Well to be honest, i'm not sure if has just been added, but having spoke to a meta editor, he advised that my site had been put into another category, since i only ship to the uk.
I'd not found my site in any category before, hense, i assume it has been listed very recently.

Regards
Andy

[cornwall]

Andy

When the DMOZ internal search engine is up to date (there have been problems of late), you can search for the url, rather than the site as in "widgets.com", which should throw up any referencees to the site.

[hurlimann]

I too am editor. Today I edited 50 subs that have waited less than a month as I have been busy. About 50% got rejected as they broke the Dmoz rules: mostly for spam but some because of content or context. This is becoming increasingly common :(

Last month I referred two subs to a Meta.

One of the submitters seems to spend his life moaning to anyone/board/press etc about Editors corruption yet continually submits 4 sites that are clearly spam, mirrors, dups or fraternal. I listed one and rejected the others as he already had two or more links to the domains in DMOZ.

The other is us. We currently have one regional and one worldwide link as per the rules. We also a deep link page that I feel warrants a listing but as an editor I have sent it to a Meta to decide.

In most cases the Bottom Line is:

1)Read the rules and submit as per the guidelines
2)Be patient
3)Don’t spam

If you are really stuck SM me the URL and the Cat and I will take a look.

Frankly Dmoz and resource-zone.com are overwhelmed beacuse both have to deal with all the spam subs and false complaints.

[rfgdxm1]

>I too am editor. Today I edited 50 subs that have waited less than a month as I have been busy. About 50% got rejected as they broke the Dmoz rules: mostly for spam but some because of content or context. This is becoming increasingly common :(

Looks like you get a lot more spam than I do in my cats. Although, admittedly most of my cat space really shouldn't get any spam at all. Doesn't stop the spammers, though. :(

>Last month I referred two subs to a Meta.

>One of the submitters seems to spend his life moaning to anyone/board/press etc about Editors corruption yet continually submits 4 sites that are clearly spam, mirrors, dups or fraternal. I listed one and rejected the others as he already had two or more links to the domains in DMOZ.

Pray tell why bother some overworked meta in a case like this? Personally, if I had a submitter like this I would allow anyone else the privilige of squishing him with glee. ;) And, if this guy is such a notorious whiner, I'd assume that would go in my favor with any meta. If he's cried wolf that often, who's gonna listen now?

>Frankly Dmoz and resource-zone.com are overwhelmed beacuse both have to deal with all the spam subs and false complaints.

I wasn't aware there were that many false complaints? However, those would only effect the metas, not some peon like me. Unless the lower editors are worrying too much about false complaints when reviewing sites? False complaints likely only come from spammers. With me spammers just get a quick "squish", and I move on.

[shangri_la]

Frankly Dmoz and resource-zone.com are overwhelmed beacuse both have to deal with all the spam subs and false complaints.

I'm an editor on dmoz, and one of the categories I edit is in Shopping. I spend half my time, going through, and deleting duplicate submissions, and trying to figure out where to put sites, because they insist on submitting to Top level, instead of the appropriate sub-category. I usually put those sites in the too-hard basket, and skip to add the sites with clear, brief descriptions, in their correct sub-category!