DMOZ and getting indexed

[loveslizzy]

I have also been waiting to get into DMOZ. I have been crawled dozens of times by Google since my domain was created in December, but do not appear to be indexed. I have about 50 quality inbound links (they show up when I do a search on the domain name)and am receiving about zero visitors a day.

Does Google eventually index you, or are we at the mercy of DMOZ? Also, how can you tell if DMOZ has been to your site?

Thanks

[Mohamed_E]

As far as Google is concerned DMOZ is just one link, perhaps an important one but certainly NOT a gatekeeper.

This is not just theory, I was in Google for close to a year before I even heard of DMOZ :) Low rank, but was there!

[rfgdxm1]

If s/he has 50 quality inbound links, odds are getting in the ODP will make no difference at all for the site with Google. loveslizzy, are you sure you are not in Google? Try searching on unique strings of text on your site. If Googlebot is spidering, then you should be in.

[loveslizzy]

The weird thing is, when I click PAGE INFO on the google toolbar and choose BACKWARD LINKS, nothing comes up. I also have a PR of 0 --just a white bar. My site is only a few months old.

Also, when I search for my domain name I get the home page and about 50 other inbound links, but at the bottom of my homepage there is no CATEGORY listing. For example a search for Microsoft would have this listing:

Category: Computers > Companies > ... > Microsoft Corporation

I have no category under mine. Doesn't this mean I am not indexed?

I dunno.

I can e-mail you my homepage url. If you do a search on it, you'll see what I mean.

Thanks, I appreciate everyone's help.

[steveb]

The PR0 means your backlinks won't show (you need to be PR4 for that).

You have no category because you aren't in the Google Directory, which hasn't been updated since September which gets its data from DMOZ. This has nothing to do with the index tho. Search for a long string of unique words from your site. If your site shows up, you are in the index.

[Powdork]

The fact that when you search for your domain name you get your home page means you are indexed. If your backlinks were added after the January crawl (first week of January) they won't show until the new update.
To find out what pages of yours are in the google index try allinurl:www.yoursite.com from the Google searchbox.

When you check your backlinks it does not matter what your pr is. The links won't show up unless they are from pages that have a pr of at least 4.

[loveslizzy]

A lot of great insight. Thanks everyone. Just curious: How ofter does Google update its directory?

[windharp]

They used to do it short before each dance when I last read about it. The RDF Dump was repaired some weeks ago, before that they couldn't update - so in fact noone can know what they will be doing now.