I've seen several posts where people talk about finding out who the editor for a particular DMOZ category is, and about contacting them. I have submitted my site a few times over the past year to DMOZ, and the result: Nothing! No response, no rejection, no nothing! Unbelievable. I wouldn’t care about this crazy site except of course that Google takes the link/s from there to be important, etc.

2 of my competitors are listed in the category I want to be listed in. Why do I suspect foul play at work here somewhere, like that one of my competitors is the editor of the category?

Anyway, I'd love to find out for sure, and would appreciate any advice and feedback anyone can give me about how to find out who the editor is and how to contact them.

Thanks


Magic42

Editors are encuraged not to respond, so you are unlikely to get a response.Really bad move. Everytime you have resubmitted, you have just overwritten the previous submission with the new date and moved your site to the back of the pile. DMOZ does not provide any feedback.Does your site have content and information that your 'competitors' don't have? If not, then your site is not listable. If that is the case, then the editor will be removed. Please provide the evidenceThe editor is listed at the bottom of the category or one higher up. But, the information you are wanting is not made available.

Thank you for your views. I guess I've heard some of these thoughts before. But waiting over a year for a listing seems excessive. Especially seeing that certain competitors who've been in business less long thatn I have their sites lited.

Are you an editor at DMOZ?

Thanks

Magic42

I am not an editor.

By saying that you have been "waiting over a year for a listing seems excessive" implies that you are under the impression that DMOZ is a listing service for webmasters. Its not.

Hello Magic42,

You are not alone. I have the same situation. Couple of years ago I submitted one of my web sites to DMOZ and still no results, no responses. It will be better if DMOZ start charging some fees for adding web sites to this directory as yahoo does.

Alex

The best place I know of is the dmoz Resource-Zone

May be this thread will help you:

dmoz, some facts and fictions

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dmoz Resource-Zone will also not provide the status of site, they discontinued it long ago so keeping waiting or forget Dmoz.

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Sorry for being a noob, but what about posting your site to multiple directories within DMOZ?

the guidelines you agree to when you suggest a site say don't do it.

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Why do I suspect foul play at work here somewhere, like that one of my competitors is the editor of the category?
If that is the case, then the editor will be removed. Please provide the evidence

How can he? He's not privy to who the editor is.

"Really bad move. Everytime you have resubmitted, you have just overwritten the previous submission with the new date and moved your site to the back of the pile."

At the bottom of the dmoz category you will find a date when that particular category was last edited. If that date is after your submission, and considering that they're never going to tell you if your submission has been disapproved, and also considering that its largely known that submissions to this ridiculous directory have been a black hole for year, I would submit to a different appropriate category and hope for the best.

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