Dmoz Listing

I know Dmoz takes a while to update its listings but this is too much!

[chrisholgate]

Okay, I know Dmoz takes a while to update its listings but this is too much! I've been waiting almost half a year for my Inkjet consumable site to be listed on Dmoz.... Still nothing.

It's well designed, contains very few links to external sites and has a Google PR rating of 5 but dispite renewing my request for submission once or twice I am still yet to hear back from them. I realise they take their time to update listings as it is all done manually but was wondering if anyone else had experienced a delay of this degree and if any of you had suggestions on how I can speed the process up?

Cheers all.

Chris

[steveb]

You can inquire about your submission at resource-zone.com

Your site could have been rejected many months ago, or it could be waiting in a category that no one has chosen to volunteer to edit.

[cornwall]

>> Inkjet consumable site

I don't personally know anyone who edits " Inkjet consumable sites " but I understand that they were all taken away by the men in white coats some time ago.

In all seriousness, I think it would be dificult to get anyone to volunteer to edit their on account of the spam. There are so many mirrors, duplicates, redirects, affiliates, urls as long as your arm, than the average volunteer would ever wish to see.

My guess would be that it would take half an hour to check each submission against deviousness, and after that perhaps only 1 in 20 would actually be added (1 in 20 may be high)

I would be intereested to see a post from someone who edits that cat regularly!

[rfgdxm1]

>I don't personally know anyone who edits " Inkjet consumable sites " but I understand that they were all taken away by the men in white coats some time ago.

This explains why the backlog is so bad in Shopping. In one ODP cat I edit, I currently see the following:

Shopping@ (356 sites, 408 new, 12 errors)

That is an @link to the Shopping version of this category where I can't edit from the Recreation branch where I can edit. Over in Recreation, the cat space has 320 listed sites, with just 4 unrevieweds I am ignoring for the moment hoping the lower editors will get around to handling them so I don't have to. That @link category is drowning in unrevieweds (408) because no editor so far has been crazy enough to apply. And, looks like no editall has wanted to take on the task of going through that huge pile of unrevieweds. In Shopping, queues backlogged 6 months or more is by no means uncommon.

[cornwall]

Chris

I took a look at your site, and spent a good deal of time checking the credentials. Whilst I now know a lot about you, and the various businesses you run (busy chap you are)...

I have no idea (yet) as to whether you are a genuine shop selling cartridges or an affiliate.

If you read the DMOZ guideline on affiliates [dmoz.org] you can see what editors are being asked to check for your sort of submission.

I am no expert in Inkjet sites, but I can see an editor looking at your site, being unsure after a half hour root around, then leaving it in unreviewed.

As you have reasonable PR for the site (you appear on the first page of Google when I search for the product in the UK)....

My advice would be not to worry about your DMOZ entry and concentrate on more productive use of your time. You are obviouskly doing well in serps. Basically you do not need it ;)

[aaronjf]

chrisholgate, don't feel too bad. I have 9 sites that are wainting to be listed. They are all in small cats with an editor and I have been waiting 6 months too.

Weird thing is I submitted a site to them a month ago and it got it in two weeks. They rreally are random freaks...

[aaronjf]

For some reason I can't "owner edit" so I would like to apologize to the thread for my previous comment about DMOZ being "random freaks.." The comment was made in anger. I should have said that in my experience their practices are inconsistent.

[bull]

hey, keep cool.

with dmoz requests it's like with some stocks: get them and forget about them for a year or so. In that time you can get dozens of other valuable links where you might have the possibility to get a better href text

jan

[kctipton]

Someone _has_ to be listed first, someone second and so on. Would you be half as annoyed if your site had been listed in a day or two after submission? Of course not...

[RFranzen]

aaronjf,

I would like to apologize to the thread for my previous comment about DMOZ being "random freaks.."

This editor (rock) accepts your apology. Heck, I wasn't even insulted to begin with. How could I be, after choosing the "Mozilla Chaos" image for my bookmarks? :)

-- Rich

[chrisholgate]

Cheers for your advice, I checked my submission status at resource-zone.com and despite originally submitting at the beginning of the year I then I resubmitted mid April so my submission date is now assumed to be April not January.

Let this be a lesson to you all :-)

Cheers

Chris

[chrisnrae]

I have a freelance clients site still unreviewed after four months in a category with an editor. This isn't a small category either - and this girls site is a COMPLETE mom and pop operation (her own brand products) with tons of on topic articles. Ah well, she has a PR6 without them. Kind of annoying though.

My brother has a totally non commercial site for his paintball team that I designed for him and his team did the content for. They worked hard and made a darn good site, even in my eyes. But, it sits in a small dmoz cat with four listings since the end of February now and still has yet to be added (presumably reviewed).

[rfgdxm1]

chrisnrae, 4 months or less in the queue at the ODP isn't a particularly long time by ODP standards.

[joeweb]

I have a question. How long until DMOZ picks up an inclusion into their directory into their search feature?

I've had a site in the directory for a few weeks now, but when I do a search it returns with a "No Open Directory Project results found". I know it's there I'm looking at the category...

I haven't checked the latest dmoz dump but I was included prior to the April 24th dump...

Also, I know we're waiting on the google update, but how soon until the dmoz data is included in, anyone know?

[John_Caius]

Both the search feature and Google picking up dmoz results are dependent on the RDF dump. Due to ongoing upgrades of the hardware behind the scenes, this may have taken a little longer than usual last time, although apparently now the RDF has been upgraded successfully. Usually results propagate into the Google directory within a month or two of being listed, depending on Google's schedule of updating and whether they've taken the most recent RDF. It's pretty much only editors and site submitters that use the dmoz search so I wouldn't lose any sleep over how long it takes for your site to turn up there. The critical bit is that it's been listed in the directory. Everything else will come with time. :)

[g1smd]

Everything listed at dmoz.org before 2003-04-04 is in the current RDF dump; and Google probably picked that up a week or two ago.

The next RDF will include all of the current stuff. Then, allow another 6 weeks or so for that to propogate to the Google directory.

(Based on past performance).