DMOZ Submission

[123akshay]

Hey guys,

Have anyone recently successfully submitted their site into DMOZ. I want to submit my site to DMOZ but it is not accepting my submission. Can any SEO Expert share their knowledge related to DMOZ submission, when is the best time to submit your site in to DMOZ?

Thanks in advance

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[Caitlyn]

If your content is valid then domz will accept your link. but it will take time. After one year also some times domoz will approve

[jasonwdexter]

As Caitlyn said, it does take time. Make sure you're content is as good as it can be, submit your site and then just leave it. There's nothing you can do about it, and it's been suggested that when you re-submit your site, you go to the back of the queue. Also, all the editors are volunteers, so they'll get around to it when they can

[williamc]

If your content is valid then domz will accept your link.

Horsepuckey.


Also, all the editors are volunteers, so they'll get around to it when they can

In actuality the editors are told they do not even have to LOOK at the submission pool.

DMOZ is a crapshoot anymore. It is also, in my opinion, worthless to bother with other than submitting and forgetting, the same as any other crap directory.

[joomlads07]

It's not easy to get your link approval in DMOZ. Processing of site submissions will take a while, even up to six months, sometimes longer.

[mjtaylor]

And depending on the category, you may be wasting your time. See: Where's The Love, DMOZ? (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wheres-the-love-dmoz)

Apparently fewer and fewer pages are indexed:


This post came out of Q&A, where we've had multiple questions about new DMOZ links not showing up in Open Site Explorer. To be honest, the timing and depth of these links means that OSE doesn't always catch them, but in almost every case that I dug into, the DMOZ pages in question weren't being indexed by Google, either.

[jasonwdexter]

Really? But it is the best directory.

What makes you say that? It's just one website. I'd rather concentrate my efforts on getting on some relevant websites that are actually benefit my website by driving targeted traffic to me, and help me in the SERPS at the same time.

[martty]

DMOZ lists 3000-9000 new sites each month making it the fastest growing directory on the web.

[knorthfield]

I've found directories generally useless. DMOZ has the best reputation and therefore may be the most trustworthy to the search engines, isn't it owned by Yahoo?

I've submitted a few sites to DMOZ and none were authorised, it's not worth sweating about too much.

[C.Rebecca]

Some times even websites with quality content get rejected. Reason: Illegal (websites that are against DMOZ Guidelines)


If you use promotional words during submission there are chances that editors would take a longer time to review it or it may get rejected.
OR
May be your website is still in queue to get reviewed... Did you get any notification of rejection????

[mjtaylor]

I've found directories generally useless. DMOZ has the best reputation and therefore may be the most trustworthy to the search engines, isn't it owned by Yahoo?

I've submitted a few sites to DMOZ and none were authorised, it's not worth sweating about too much.

I don't believe DMOZ is owned by Yahoo. I believe Time Warner owns it.

[CReed]

A little late but here's couple of experiences: submitted a site in early September and it was listed in late October; another was submitted around mid May and listed sometime before the end of last year. Probably pure luck, but as far as I can tell, DMOZ is still listing sites that are submitted. You just never know when and it's not worth fretting over.

[ADR International]

May be your website is still in queue to get reviewed... Did you get any notification of rejection????



DMoz will not tell you if a entry has been rejected.

[onlinetv]

DMOZ lists 3000-9000 new sites each month making it the fastest growing directory on the web.

DMOZ has 30000 to 50000 sites go dead each month. No one cares! It is the worst site on the Internet for anything but garbage. Volunteers are more like guardians who have an agenda to protect their friends and they reject anyone with an expertise as prejudice and incapable of judging validity of a site.

I have not bothered with them since the turn of the century and have only seen their listings get worse.

Besides, it really does nothing for page rank or link backs except for 1 backlink if you find someone who does not find your site threatening to the sites they protect there.