Does DMOZ ever index sites?

I have been witing 2 months for them to index my site. http://financial-shopper-network.com

"Does DMOZ ever index sites?"

DMOZ will not index your entire site. DMOZ lists the main page of a site. You can ask about the status of your submission at http://www.resource-zone.com

Just my opinion here, but I think the fault lies with lazy submitters. For example, I spent about 6 hours editing yesterday but listed less than 20 sites. Why? The majority are submitted to the wrong category, and then rather than simply listing them we have to find the correct category and move it there to sit in an unreviewed que again.

Often sites are submitted with the wrong title, and then we have to fix it. How someone can get the title of their own website wrong is beyond me. Then we get to descriptions... what a mess. Some don't use capitalization, punctuation or sentences. Others are just a series of key words and hype that reads more like an ad than a description. Some seem like they're describing an entirely different site, as if we don't actually look! In these cases we have to go over the entire site just so we can write a proper description.

It's very common for a new submission to take 20 minutes to edit because of the carelessness of the submitter. It's less common, but very much appreciated when a submitter takes the time to do it right, in which case it can take as little as 2 minutes to edit.

Now, consider how many of these bad submissions are in que before you and do the math... is it any wonder that it can take so long to get listed?

Sorry for the rant, but everywhere I go I see DMOZ getting blamed. We're the good guys, we work hard and for free to get you listed. Blame the spammers and lazy submitters who won't take the time to read the guidelines or even find the right category... they're the ones who have the directory so bogged down.

Anne

What happens if it appears the editor of a category appears to have lost interest? I believe there is only 1 editor for the category I submitted in. It has been almost 6 months since submission, I am just hoping the editor returns as at resource-zone I was told there is only a "handful" of sites waiting in the que.

[As an editor I fully agree]

Yes, the submitters can't even get their URL right. If I get a site not found, I can't just thow it away, but have to make a reasonable attempt to find it. Pure sloppiness in many of the submissions, bad punctuation, bad spelling, submiited to a totally wrong category. So some sites wander around ODP going from one editor to another, and wasting everyones time.

Personally I think if the submitter can't get his own URL correct, it shouldd be dumped, and I go to the next one.

Then after you get to the site, you have to wade through a lot of pathetic looking designs, bad links, pages under construction, and find the submiited description does not match the web site. Again, if the site isn't ready for prime time, it should be dumped, and the user not allowed to submit again for a couple of months.

Then the spammers, who try to submit different URL's for the same content in different categories. What do they think - we can't figure that out.

So all of this is very unfair to the guy trying to get his nice little web site in, it gets delayed cause of all the other nonsense, but when I finally get to it, it's a pleasure to add to the directory.

I agree, I think the number of active editors is probably more like 4000, and some of those editors barely do anything. Some do immense amounts of editing, that I cannot even understand.

I became an editor partly with my own site in mind, and also to understand ODP. However, of three sites I submiitted, two were put into ODP within a day - before I ended up being editor, the other is in a category with about 150 waiting to be put in, and I could not in all honesty apply for that site, put a few in, including mine, and quit. Id' feel I had to all 150 first - and I don't want to take that on. Even if an editor gets to it, which may take a year or two, he might then move it to another category.

I've ended up working on stuff thats of personal interest to me, and it has become a somewhat addictive activity. I can see that some editors eventually burn out. After a while there's only so much you can take.

As someone said - what the best thing about the internet - "Everone has the capacity to publish his web site on whatever subject he wants"

And what the worst thing about the internet - "Everone has the capacity to publish his web site on whatever subject he wants"

Domain: www.dnware.com
Category: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/


By the way, I just found out a couple weeks ago that an editor has been appointed to that sub-category. However, editors at resource-zone have said nothing has been done to that category yet.

Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

Well if you look at the public page, there is an editor name showing.

If you had a count of the sites in the category from two weeks ago, and keep watching, and they increase, it would mean he's also doing something.

:::What happens if it appears the editor of a category appears to have lost interest?

An editor at a higher lever does the work, and after a certian number of months of not doing any thing, you get de-listed, until you cam back and E-Mail them asking to be listed again. I got de-listed once for not doing anything for I think six months. I'm listed now, but don't do very much stuff there.

:::Since there is some activity in the category, you might try sending a message to the editor.

That doesn't mean the editor of that categoy is doing anything. Some one from a category at a higher level could be going the work.

I actually emailed the main category editor about a month ago, I was real polite and mannered, but my gesture appears to not have worked. So at the moment I am a little reluctant in emailing the sub-category editor where my site is currently in queue.