submitting pages to Dmoz

how many pages are enough to submit?

[Navdeep]

hi all,
page submission to Dmoz is an important part for a website to get good listings.
question is that how many pages of a website(having total pages more than 200) should be submitted to directory?
second question is that is there any limit of directory in terms of number of pages that can be submitted for a single website?

please give me some ideas.
thanks
navdeep s

[cbpayne]

DMOZ dosen't list pages, its list sites.

Guidelines are explicit - something like "one site to one best category".

[conroy]

please don't submit every page of your site to dmoz...

Your site is likely only going to get exactly 1 listing for the home page in its relevant category. 2 if you are region specific. So submit only your home page to the most relevant category.

[flicker]

I'll add that if your site is written in multiple languages (truly so, not machine-translated), you can also submit it to an additional category within each World branch it applies to (as well as the main and regional submissions).

But submitting all your product pages and so forth will just waste everyone's time and I wouldn't be surprised if it even got your main site blocked for spamming.

[Navdeep]

but what about the thousands of enteries of various sites.
some sites i searched has thousands of pages listed in dmoz.
i think they have submitted all these pages to directory.
what about this.

thanks

[flicker]

>i think they have submitted all these pages to directory.

Not usually. The domains with thousands of listings are pretty much all either hosting thousands of truly different sites (like Geocities ) or are broad informational resources (like CNN, the Smithsonian, or the IMDB). In the former case individual webmasters submit each site, and in the latter, the deeplinking is done by editors.

We err on the side of -not- banning sites from our directory, but any webmaster who clogged up our works by submitting thousands of pages from the same $#$@!site would definitely be asking to be an exception.

Submit your site *once* to the *most appropriate category*. If you have a regional presence and/or your site is bilingual you may also submit to the appropriate Regional and World categories. That's all. If your site is considered worthy of deeplinking, an editor will do that part himself. Deeplinking (listing of individual pages within an already-listed site) does happen sometimes, particularly with informational sites and in small categories that are short on resources. However, it's almost always because an editor found those deeplinks, not because they were submitted. We discourage deeplink submissions.

Now, if you have two sites about REALLY different topics--say your main site is about widget sales and your subsite is about your son's peewee football league--then it's okay to submit the second site as well. But please don't ever submit individual product pages anywhere, or try to get multiple listings within, say, Shopping. They won't get listed, and it slows the submission process down for everyone else, and it could even get you and your site in trouble if you're persistant enough.

Just the personal opinions of one ODP editor here; but much of this is officially stated within our submission rules too. (http://dmoz.org/add.html)