Dmoz..... how long to get listed?

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Djfreema

• Jan 30, 2007

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Hi,

I submitted my site to Dmoz over 2 weeks ago.

Anybody with any experience of how long it can take to get listed in dmoz.

Thanks,

Darrell

 

An Oasis

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• Jan 30, 2007

• #2

Hi

We are still waiting after 2 years for one site, the editor is a competitor from Scotland... The whole Dmoz issue is a sham, personally I hope they die. It was a farce before AOL took over and it's got worse since then.

There are some useful editors. But personally I wouldn't hold your breath or waste your time.

 

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Djfreema

• Jan 30, 2007

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Thanks Oasis,

How do you find out who the editor is for your category?

Thanks,

Darrell

 

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An Oasis

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• Jan 30, 2007

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Assuming there is an ed for your cat, just go to the cat, it will be at the bottom.

 

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• Jan 30, 2007

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Still waiting after 3 years. It's waste of time IMHO. I did actually apply to be an editor in two categories that are completely unrelated to my trade. In both instances I was told "they're too spammy, try a different category". How about you suggest a category?

But no, that would be too simple.

 

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An Oasis

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• Jan 30, 2007

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A total waste, I give Dmoz less than a year before it is finally put to rest.

 

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multilingual

• Jan 30, 2007

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Been waiting over two years, still nothing.

We contacted the editor for our category and he told us that the application had been received and we should just wait. That was 12 months ago.

It is supposed to be carefully vetted, but one of our competitors has four listings in the same category with the same text all linking to the same web site.

Bit of a joke if you ask me.

JB

 

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Djfreema

• Jan 30, 2007

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A total waste, I give Dmoz less than a year before it is finally put to rest.

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Why do you think dmoz will soon close down?

 

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• Jan 30, 2007

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we asked on the forum who long and were told not to ask! Very frustrating - but we then added the site to the Yahoo directory and within a week we started to rank well so I would just try other avenues.

 

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leemason

• Jan 30, 2007

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I submitted about 9 months ago and am still waiting!!!! VERY VERY frustrating...

 

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Ian J

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• Jan 30, 2007

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DMOZ had a major hardware failure a couple of months ago and has been offline until just a week or two ago.

Certainly in the cats that I edit all of the sites awaiting evaluation have disappeared so it may be in order to resubmit.

 

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An Oasis

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• Jan 30, 2007

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Hi Ian

With your mod/edit hat off would you advise anyone to bother? Given the demise in the ranking of all the spammy-made-for-Ad-Sense-Dmoz-scraped-directories.

We talked to a number of recently departed editors who think everyone is starting to jump ship.

 

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Ian J

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factoringsolutions.co.uk

• Jan 30, 2007

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It can't do any harm to submit but I don't think that a DMOZ entry is the be all and end all that it was a few years ago.

They do still provide the basis for the Google Directory though.

 

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An Oasis

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• Jan 30, 2007

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That's a good point Ian thanks for that.

 

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• Feb 5, 2007

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I have applied on seven different occasions for the category internet telephone and haven't even had a reply. I applied 3 times over the last two months because up until then it came up saying there was an error which was obviously the major system downtime that was mentioned above. Its ironic that the 4 entries that are listed are for internet phone services which should be in another section imho.

A little disappointing considering it appears to be very strongly linked to whether you get a decent google ranking.

ahh well as someone put recently in a reply to one of my posts welcome to the web! Gonna keep trying though, as god loves a trier!!!!

 

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An Oasis

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• Feb 5, 2007

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Reply = never
Reapply = slapped to the bottom of the pile
Listing = ?

 

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SuffolkDesigns

• Feb 6, 2007

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Ozzy, the UKBF owner, is or used to be a DMOZ Editor, maybe he can pop along with some useful info.

 

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GNU

• Feb 7, 2007

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Some of this is a good read:

http://www.corruptdmozeditor.com/


I think DMOZ resembles a corrupt socialist dictatorship.

I read the DMOZ forums, lots of unhappy people waiting many years, the most sensible advice I read from an editor was submit your site, forget about your submission and get on with marketing your site in other ways.

I dont know how dependant Google is on DMOZ these days, certainly most sites listed in DMOZ get a good google page rank, but their traffic is not necessarily any better.

To a point you have to 'design for dmoz' for example DMOZ sites dont carry much advertising.

I think most editors have a vested interest in the categories they edit, holding competitors back or taking backhanders.

IMHO "Humans dont do it better"

 

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lilibet

• Feb 13, 2007

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I submitted my site when I first started 3 or 4 years ago and dared to ask why I hadn't been listed without following some protocol or other and got a really unpleasant wrist slap back...I am listed on google with the wrist slap post though! So I've never been listed and no idea why not

I do come up on the first page of results in google for party bag toys though so i don't think dmoz matters too much!

 

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GNU

• Feb 13, 2007

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lilibet said:

I submitted my site when I first started 3 or 4 years ago and dared to ask why I hadn't been listed without following some protocol or other and got a really unpleasant wrist slap back...I am listed on google with the wrist slap post though! So I've never been listed and no idea why not

I do come up on the first page of results in google for party bag toys though so i don't think dmoz matters too much!

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No thankfully the power of DMOZ seems to be dwindling, its worth submitting on the off chance but its not worth worrying about.

 

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Spenno

• Feb 14, 2007

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DMOZ is a nightmare.

If you post your site onto blogs like this you will get indexed by the search engines much quicker than DMOZ. I can get a site listed in 48 hours

Spenno

 

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GNU

• Feb 15, 2007

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Spenno said:

DMOZ is a nightmare.

If you post your site onto blogs like this you will get indexed by the search engines much quicker than DMOZ. I can get a site listed in 48 hours

Spenno

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Its not about getting listed in search engines, a listing in DMOZ used to (probably still does) get you a better page rank / SEO, a link from this site wont.

 

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