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Resubmiting to the same category will usually overwrite your previous submission and if the editor chooses to sort/review the submissions by submission date, you're moving your suggestion further down the list when you resubmit.
>>I have also volunteered to become an editor as well, not even a reply of yes, no, or anything.
When you submit an application there is an email sent to you that you must reply to. If you did not receive and reply to this email, your application was not received.
There is an ODP Public Forum where you can inquire about the status of your suggestion (and receive an answer). There's also a Become an Editor forum that you might find helpful.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld.
Generally speaking, before most editors are given access to sensitive or difficult parts of the directory, they have to prove themselves elsewhere.. and this is quite time-consuming.
My advice would be as above, to visit the ODP public forum to discuss the specific details of getting your application successfully submitted and then successfully accepted. :)
PS it is not at all uncommon for applications to take 3-6 months to be accepted. The best way to check is to navigate directly to the category in question and look. Otherwise, use the search but without the www. bit of your domain name.
3-6 monthsWhat directory is this? All applications are at least reviewed within a few hours after you reply to the autoresponder; the overwhelming number of rejections are returned within a few days and acceptances within a few weeks. If an application takes more than a month it is usually because it is written in a language none of the reviewing meta-editors speaks (we are underrepresented in Eastern European, Central and South Asian, and African languages).
new editor applications are indeed reviewed pretty quickly.
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With your site, absolutely you should post in the submission status forum. Your site is either listed somewhere you haven't found it yet, sitting in a queue waiting to be reviewed or rejected. You only need to worry about the content of your site if it's been rejected. If you've got substantial, useful, unique content then it should just be a matter of time.
If you were able to see the quality of loads of the sites in certain unreviewed queues, you'd understand the frustration expressed from time to time by certain ODP editors. It's not directed at webmasters in general, just certain webmasters in particular. It's frustrating that good sites have to wait to be listed for a long time because they're drowning in a sea of affiliate MLM...
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Wynter
one editor stated that they were not a submission service to webmasters and that they do not feel that submissions they receive are all that great and it is better for them to go looking for sites to add themselves
Hey, that's exactly what I would say. ODP isn't a submission service, and nobody should feel guilty if some submissions are NEVER reviewed. We want to build a directory, you want to get in, but it's never been a FIFO system. Some submissions may never be reviewed, others may be reviewed over and over but never get in.
No site's guaranteed a listing, and no listing is guaranteed to last forever.
That said, there's no penalty for asking at RZ about whether your site is still awaiting review or not.
I see my major competitions sites all listed and some of them, (not all), use some keyword stuffing, etc. But anyway, not trying to complain, just trying to learn what I need to do in order to get listed.
Keyword stuffing in titles and descriptions is against the ODP guidelines but may have slipped through. Eventually it will be corrected or deleted. There is an area to report such things and it is usually appreciated when a person points that out and it is legitimate.
As for getting listed, content is king but if you are a "brick and mortar" shop, (have a physical location), you can usually get listed in the regional area of the directory under the town where your shop is physically located. Content still counts though. :)
