Submissions to DMOZ

NEED DMOZ HELP!
I have submitted two sites to two different categories on DMOZ. Neither is listed, and I have received no notification that they were rejected. Can anyone help? I am not sure what I have done wrong?

How long have you waited? If not at least 6 months your not finished waiting. It takes at least that long, and there's no way to push it other than to join the DMOZ blog and try to slip mention of it in your posts (but not right off the bat).

You can also get links from sites that are already listed there, but that's not guaranteed.

Don't submit again or you'll be starting from scratch, just be patient...its all you can do.

you have done all you can... when they are reviewed they will be listed or not.

Best bet is to keep improving your website so that when reviewed it may stand a better chance of being 'more than acceptable'.

I guess I still need to wait. It has only been about 4 weeks.
Thanks for the info.

DMOZ sucks. Hate it. Submit a site and get it listed 7 years from now.

Well sure - that is a possibility - but it isn't much different than being here... you have been a SEOChat member for almost a year and a total of 6 posts [one nothing more than... well OK 5 posts! ;)]

What would you do if SEOChat "DEMANDED" more participation from you - that would be ok - right?

Can we agree that your participation here and at DMOZ - sucks as bad!

After poking around and establishing a rep in the DMOZ Blog a year or so ago and got great FB from one of the seasoned editors. It was something to the effect that they have such a large load of work, as well as the turnover aspect that the best way to get listed is to follow their guidlines to the tee (i.e. No Supurlatives), and the main thing he said was that in the event you get an inexperienced editor, a marginal ad may end up in the 'bottom of the bin', so to speak, so the best way to design your listing is to look at the top 3 listings in your category and build your creative based off of their content.

One other important point is that you submit it to the correct category, but if there are a limited amount of listings in a verticle category, your more likely to get listed quicker there.

Bottom line is since you just submitted 4 weeks ago, I would look at these suggestions and determine if you can improve your submission, then resubmit it.

Long term you may get better results. Short term you may get listed quicker.

Good Luck.

Gary R. Beal

Less than 50% of suggested sites to DMOZ get listed.
Of the suggested sites that do get listed ~50% are done so within 3 months. The rest may takes years before a volunteer goes through the suggestions.
>50% of the new sites listed were never suggested (editors went out and found them).
After you have suggested ONCE to the ONE best category, there is nothing more that can be done. Editors are free to not use suggested sites when building a category (there are many better sources for sites than the suggestion pool).
DMOZ is not there to provide any sort of listing service to webmasters.

DMOZ dont give notification if the site is rejected

Which I find comical, even as an editor. The stipulations they require from editors is, And i quote Jim Noble of RZ, 'Integrity and Good Communication skills'. Funny that! Communication skills, surely that would include telling people about the rejection of submissions or an editorial application, neither of which you are guaranteed to be told the outcome. Nice to see Dmoz following their own guidelines.

Did the thought ever cross your mind that communication skills might be necessary for internal communications?

Haha, of course it did, granted, but 'Shirly' these skills could be implimented for an overall better service to inform people of the status of various things, ie: editor apps or submission statuses? Or is that plain wishfull thinking on my part and, i am sure, others aswell?

Its 2006, automated emails of notification started Pre-millenium, where Dmoz comes from, and apparently still resides.

Good communication skills include knowing when to keep your mouth shut, and when not to say anything.

There is no dearth of technical skills available from editors who could easilly implement automatic emails. The decision has been made that it will not happen.

Bad Decision! Why on God green earth would that decision have been made? Anyone willing to issue 3 or 4 reasons why such a mental decision came into action?

1. you didn't pay to have this upgrade,

2. your don't pay for any upgrade,

3. free development by volunteers on top of volunteer editorship is substantially more than anyone ever intended to volunteer for.

AND

4. keeps the DMOZ forums open on boards such as SEOChat because there are 'valid' questions to be answered.