How to get listed in ODP every time.

Follow the guidelines at http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

Edit your submission so it conforms to the guidelines. Enquire about submission status every 6 months after your submission date using the Resource Zone forums (depending on category, read the forum FAQ's).

Do this and you are 95% sure to be accepted. If you don't you have about a 1% chance plus you lengthen the waiting times for people who can read/comprehend.

Break from the guidelines at any point and you'll do yourself no favours at all.

Thats the best advice anyone can give regarding the ODP. Read and understand.

I certainly made sure I read the instructions carefully when I submitted my site. I only had to wait about 4 months.

Case in point

geez, thanks for the "tip", but what happened to the other 4%? here's an equally obvious strategy tip: How to get listed in Google every time http://www.google.com/addurl.html add your url and just sit back. here comes the money. .

Following the rules means they won't delete your submission, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with getting listed... at all. I followed the rules and am still waiting 1 year later in a small category with a weak editor.

On the flip side. I submitted another site and followed the rules to a rather large category and was listed in 3 months

Following the rules has everything to do with it. Very few sites get deleted from Unreviewed without good reason. The main reason being that they don't follow the rules.

On the subject of slow editors, it's just a question of patience. Don't forget they are volunteers.

I have not had a problem getting my sites into DMOZ - you do need some patience however. IMO lots of the complaints about DMOZ are from sites that do not qualify (affiliate sites) or sites that do not deserve a listing. DMOZ is not meant to be a listing of every site on the web.

hahahahahaha good idea!!!!!!!!!!

Getting listed in dmoz isn't hard really, the problem is that there aren't many editors, and in some categories there are very few or none at all! So you have to wait for someone who can edit in your category, so the site can be listed. And in big categories with more editors, the sites are so many that it takes too much time to get in. Some get in in 2 days some get in in 1 year... that's luck im affraid.

But here i have a solution for you, if you're not lazy =P
If you submitted to a small directory and it is taking too long, ever thought of becoming an editor yourself? You could both help the ODP and list your site (of course this has to be done objectively and not in an attempt to benefit yourself).

;-)

Six Months!?!.. yea... right..

I have two sites that have been waiting years to get listed!
I await for the day that DMOZ will list my site...
but by then, I am sure that they will have gone out of business.

Many webmasters have problems with ODP because they don't read (guideline, editors advices, forum rules, etc.).

Sometimes they read, but they don't understand.

Let's make an example: someone says "every 6 months" and someone else understands "after 6 months the site will be listed".

Another misconception is that people thinks they are waiting for an inclusion, while they are waiting just for a valuation.


The final misconception is that ODP has a business they could go out of.

Probably ODP editors are discussing to definitely refuse new user submissions: 95% of them is SPAM or horrible sites.

Directory quality could raise just ignoring submission and returning to the old method: finding web sites doing searches on the web.