Included in ODP once and that's all?

Site x: add url refering to ODP, nothing to do? or submit again?

[silverbytes]

Many sites referes to ODP add url, like:

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What to do? Should I submit add url again to ODP? Just ignore it? How do you do for adding your site to all those websites that uses ODP?

[edited by: pageoneresults at 12:59 am (utc) on July 21, 2003]
[edit reason] No URLs Please - Refer to TOS [/edit]

[tschild]

Don't submit again from all of these sites. The submit links all point to the same form. Once your site is listed in the ODP it will in time appear on all data users' sites (the delay from ODP to data user is wholly at the data user's discretion).

[silverbytes]

I understand by your answer that being listed in ODP once is enough for being found by AOL.

But then I wonder why Google found my site but not AOL or any other search engines or directories.

Unless Googlebot find sites not listed in ODP...

[tschild]

When your site is listed in the ODP this means that it will eventually be listed in the directories that use the ODP. Eventually means, in this case, within minutes, days, months, years, decades or centuries, depending on how often the people who run the respective ODP-based directory feel like updating their site.

This is out of your hands as well as out of the ODP's hands. Submitting your already listed site to the ODP from the link in one of the ODP's copies will not accelerate this process.

Of course there are a lot of directories, such as Yahoo!, Looksmart, Zeal, Goguides, Joeant etc. etc. whose content is not based on the ODP. You need to submit to these separately.

Of course Googlebot finds sites not listed in ODP. Google is a search engine not a directory.