Getting Listed in DMOZ

I can't get listed in DMOZ.org and I don't understand why?

[Kona_Dave]

Hi everyone,

I am new here and this is my first post. I have had a website up since mid January and I did something really stupid. I opted for a service called <snip>. The first thing they tell you to do is to submit your site to DMOZ.org and they give you a link and I clicked through to DMOZ and submitted my site. And about a month ago I went to DMOZ and checked and it is not there. I cancelled my subscription to the service around late March or early April.

I resubmitted my site along with a couple other sites of mine about a month ago. My question is why are my sites no showing up? It is not like submitting a site to DMOZ is all that tough. My sites do not have any questionable content and follow all the guidelines.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any insight into DMOZ will be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Dave

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[ericdarby]

DMOZ is run by volunteer editors so it can take some time. Sometimes you may never get listed. It all depends on the quality of your site and the editor who happens to review it. Always be polite with them, and perhaps resubmit in another 2 months or so if you dont see any results. Be sure to submit to the deepest correct category. Make the editor's job as easy as possible, and do not use sales hype in your site description.

I hope this helps.

[Quadrille]

With the Open Directory - as with all quality directories - it really pays to read their guidelines and be sure your site suggestion is compliant.

On most cases, their guidelines are their to save editors' time - and to save you from being marked as a spammer (they get a lot).

It usually pays to do it yourself, or pay a reputable third party.

Doing what you did - and I'm necessarily guessing - probably means that your submission ignored 99% of their guidelines, probably getting your URL marked down as a spam site in the process.

Even if you submission is compliant, the site must be appropriate too, of course ;)

Go read their submission guidelines, and the appropriate category guidelines too - it won't be hard to see where you went wrong.

And what applies to ODP, applies to all quality directories. After all, do you want your site listed in a directory which accepts any old spam site, exactly as submitted? That isn't a directory; it's a link farm!

Go for quality. It makes for better sites, better directories - and better business.

And you get to meet a better class of people ;)