It is months that I have submitted a website and still not there
After months of frustration my website submission has finally been approved by the DMOZ editorial team and has been put in the respective category.It took 8 months to get the nod ,since it was a free subscription.I had already given up hope and when I asked members from various forums they came up with 2 options a)DMOZ is no longer important and 2)Bribe the editor.Well I didn't believe the first and neither did I try the second one.So people who still have their website waiting for approval in the cue don't get dis heartened just submit it to the most relevant category .Incase your website has 10 keywords and you optimize your website properly for all of them, then try submitting it to the category that has the minimum amount of approvals pending.That will surely help.I did that and was successful.
I waited for about 2 years in the correct category, then i tried again in the regional section, this got me listed inside 6 months, so if you can add to regional, that should speed it up slightly.
5-7 years would have to wait to be proven. There are no outstanding sites waiting for review in ODP at present time that have waited for over 14 months. Because 14months ago the big crash removed all the sites previously submitted.
Yes you acn wait a long time to get a site reviewed with a view that it might be listed in the directory. But do remember that the editors are all volunteers, you can become one if you apply and can pass the entry tests. Secondly remember the focus of the directory is on the surfer and seeking to provide sites in a categorized form and which have unique content. It is not a listing service for webmasters. Editors are not required to list sites from those submitted, they are encouraged to go and find their own sites which enrich the category. Many editors would like the submissions turned off.
I have been waiting for ever. the categories im tryingto post in never seem to have an editor, which sucks when you run out of categories
Every category has many editors. Do you mean you have submitted your site to more than one category? Did you read the guidelines? How do you think any directory should treat those who deliberatly break the guidelines? .... and you wonder why you are not listed!
I have been waiting for ever. the categories im tryingto post in never seem to have an editor, which sucks when you run out of categories
Well there is a solution, waste, sorry, spend a large amount of your spare time and become the editor.
Birdie is, of course, correct, every category has dozens of editors, because every editor in a category higher up can edit in that category and hundreds of editors can edit anywhere. But still the surest way to get the Q's down is to volunteer, pass the tests and become an editor yourself. Mind you, you will have top read the guidelines and tips more carefully than you seem to have done so far.
You may consider following up or resubmitting. My submission (cat site) only took a couple of weeks (14 days) so I can't be that lucky or good (maybe pretty)
PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE --- its really bad advice. Resubmitting just overwrites your previous submission with the new date and puts your site at a disadvantage.
If you have submitted during the last 15 months there is nothing more that you can do in DMOZ, so stop getting yourself a headache, go and promote your site in other places.
Remember the motto
Submit and forget
and one day you might find you have an early Christmas present and be listed.
All submissions before January 2007 were lost in the great crash. Submit again if you submitted before then and you have not submitted since, but only re-submit if this is the case.
If you are submitting your site with correct information according to it term & condition
Then it will take 2 to 4 month
Would like this to be so...but...it isnt
It depends more where you submit. Some cats are full with spam, some are well maintained.
Correct site title and description are not the "panacea" for listing, or for speed check.
They can attrackt editors attention. Which is useful
Time scale for a review of a site is from a few hours to a few years. Depends on an editor choosing to review that category, that site. I edited in a cat with my name on last week, been months since I edited there, others have done some bits and pieces, but no one has majorly edited. When will the next crop of submissions be reviewed? Might be next week, next month, next year. Depends on what I want to review next, how much time I have, how much time I spend with the family and will depend on another editor deciding they want to do some editing there. When...well how long is a piece of string?
Sorry if that does not help, but it is reality and I would not want anyone to have any false expectations of how long this process can take. If you know the facts, you can do what we editors suggest, add the site then forget it and go promote your site somehwere else. You cannot speed it up or slow it down.
It may take some time (sometimes 6 months or more ...) before your website will show up in the Open Directory Project. However, do not resubmit your website during the waiting period as this can only result in a longer delay or get your website rejected. Be patient and regularly check the status of your submission by doing the search on DMOZ. If your website does not get listed for a long period of time or gets rejected, you can also check on the status of the submission or the reasons for the rejection by contacting the editors for the subcategory that you selected.
you can also check on the status of the submission or the reasons for the rejection by contacting the editors for the subcategory that you selected.
Few editors appreciate that sort of contact and I would suggest that is not a good idea. I never respond to anyone asking what has happened to a site.
The formal contact with the public website resources zone gave up doing site status checks over a year ago. I have seen a website where one editor will do it, but we have found that we can only say "waiting in a queue" or "rejected" the first makes people frustrated and the second generates but why. And the editor is sucked into a protracted conversation.
Remember these are suggestions as to what we might include. We give no commitment when any will be reviewed or listed and we do not advise submitters when a site has been moved/rejected/listed.
The basics are that if it complies with guidelines then when it is reviewed it will be listed, if not it will be rejected. So if it complies its in a Q if it does not comply it has or will be rejected.
Just in case any of you feel that only certain sites are listed by an editor, we do have a complaints procedure, use it, any information that has evidence will be investigated and if found proven, action taken usually the editor banned for life. We regard abusive editing as deleting competitors sites, sadly in a very small number of cases it does happen, but they are usually found out before very long, and as an editor friend of mine says " There is nothing in the directory that cannot be changed or fixed".
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