Why Most DMOZ Submissions Are Rejected - Page 8

aloknath · 07-18-2008, 03:44 AM

I have checked thrice my site before submitting in DMOZ and also given for testing but there was not a single bug. I don't know why they rejected my website..

ezwoodz · 07-18-2008, 04:33 AM

same here, but instead of keep submitting and waiting for DMOZ approval, I've just moved on

jennypretty · 07-18-2008, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by aloknath

I have checked thrice my site before submitting in DMOZ and also given for testing but there was not a single bug. I don't know why they rejected my website..

Did they send you a message for rejection?

Birdie · 07-18-2008, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by aloknath

I have checked thrice my site before submitting in DMOZ and also given for testing but there was not a single bug. I don't know why they rejected my website..

How do you know they rejected it?

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Originally Posted by ezwoodz

same here, but instead of keep submitting and waiting for DMOZ approval, I've just moved on

You only have yourself to blame! Everytime you resubmit, you just overwrite the previous submission with the new date and keep moving yourself to the back of the list if the editor sorts by date of submission!

Submit ONCE to the ONE best category and move on. There is nothing more you can do.

**Cricket** · 07-18-2008, 06:38 PM

Submit it and forget it ...

borsa_mat · 07-21-2008, 07:46 AM

yeah why DMOZ does it. I am rejected again. I will shut down my site.

Birdie · 07-22-2008, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by borsa_mat

yeah why DMOZ does it. I am rejected again. I will shut down my site.

How do you know you were rejected?

motherknucker · 07-25-2008, 02:02 AM

my experience is - never submit your site to dmoz if your site is comparitively new.
you'll never get accepted

anonymously · 07-25-2008, 05:10 AM

Strange, that, I just listed one that was brand new.

Age has nothing to do with it.

But I can't be bothered with sites who have not bothered looking for the correct category, (having a look and getting it wrong is different than just dumping in top categories) don't bother reading guidelines about descriptions, so they read "We are the biggest, the best, you won't do better than here........"

Find most appropriate category, look at the site descriptions in the category or better read the guidelines, the site title is the title of the site or the company name and submit. Then forget. Could take months or years to get reviewed. Many sites on here which say rejected may have been but far more likely they are in a Q waiting to be looking at.

Hot tip to get sites listed faster .................................................. .................................................. ................

apply to become an editor. There are many threads about how to do that, read them first.

fastreplies · 08-17-2008, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by anonymously

Hot tip to get sites listed faster .................................................. .................................................. ................

apply to become an editor.

Here is even better tip http://www.v7n.com/forums/900667-post145.html

fastreplies

anonymously · 08-18-2008, 04:43 AM

But does that get your site listed or listed faster, what a strange logic you have. If you really are not interested in a DMOZ listing then why bother at all and if you are the best way and the quickest way is unquestionably to become an editor.

More editors means that not only will a particular site get listed, but many more will too and the largest human edited directory on the web which is clearly miles in front of all the others will increase that position.

Join now, and above all be honest on your application particularly about your sites and any sites that you have contributed to, find three good quality sites to offer, check how other sites are listed and described to see how to offer them and stand the best chance of being accepted. Good luck.

Otherwise submit and forget and wait.

dsouza · 08-18-2008, 06:19 AM

thanks for the guideline, That was a very useful tips

adamk1 · 08-19-2008, 04:06 PM

I cant understand why people get rejected I have been accepted most of the time

Birdie · 08-19-2008, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by adamk1

I cant understand why people get rejected I have been accepted most of the time

I have asked several times of people in this thread how they know that they were rejected. Did you notice that NONE of them have replied .... don't figure.

adamk1 · 08-20-2008, 07:24 AM

I am guessing that they know by looking at some kind of web tool after a month that tells you where your indexed I had one but cant remember what it was called

jim_noble · 08-20-2008, 08:10 AM

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they know by looking at some kind of web tool

Go here
Type your domain name into the seach box (without any http or www)
Click Enter

fastreplies · 08-20-2008, 09:49 AM

Very good idea Jim.

Why don't you use it to check franzwilding.com?

And then visit that site and tell us what directory with less than 100 links doing in DMOZ Index.

BTW, I want to hear from you, what is so unique about that site

fastreplies

anonymously · 08-20-2008, 02:16 PM

Seems to have gone!

jim_noble · 08-20-2008, 03:25 PM

Looks like a repurposed hijack to me. The language and the description bear no relation to its current content so it wouldn't have been like that when it was listed. Whatever, it was spotted and removed from the directory before you posted

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Our search works from the most recent RDF data dump, not the live directory, so it can be a week or so out of date.

Birdie · 08-20-2008, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by adamk1

I am guessing that they know by looking at some kind of web tool after a month that tells you where your indexed I had one but cant remember what it was called

That will not tell them if they are rejected. All it could do is tell them that they are not listed.