Can anyone provide tips for getting a site into DMOZ successfully?
The basic advice I've heard is - submit it and forget it - you may get in or you may not.
Is this all we can do?
Don't leave the hopes :D I submitted many sites till now but get listed only single. I suggest you for read the submission guideline before submit your website in DMOZ, it can take 3 months for inclusion.
Good Luck!
Does it take such a long time after submission to be included? It is in partnership with AoI search and I thought the process could be easy.
I spent a lot of sites, but so far only one must be in the list. I was a DMOZ Submission Guidelines before submitting your site to read the proposal, it may take three months, including:
i am not sure if they are accepting new submissions as none of my submission made since 1.5-2 year being accepted
does dMoz indexing still worth the efforts, I didn't submit a site at least 4 years...
Hello Friends,
Follow the submission guidelines 100%. Do not submit to multiple categories. Suggest only the main URL not separate pages. Spend the time trying to make the description as correct as possible - leave all your marketing hype at the door. Spend at least 20 minutes preparing the suggestion and finding the best single category. After submitting, get on with the rest of your life and don't get obsessed with ODP.
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Stats suggest the google share of the net is about 70% so why is it important to get into the Open Directory Project, or DMOZ? After all, in terms of traffic, the DMOZ itself has very little to offer the average user. The Open Directory Project is important because Google draws data from it. The Websites that are listed in the DMOZ directory get a higher PageRank from Google. Google, yahoo, AOL and many other search sites use to have a link directly to DMOZ at the buttom of their site.
DMOZ is hard to get in because the sites are added by volunteer, by hand. The editorial process is slow and subject to error. Consider adding your sites to other directories that ave website in your nich. See www.webtoolson.com (http://www.webtoolson.com) for more SEO web tools (http://web%20tools)
Yes, I agree with maxqposter. Why people put a huge effort on DMOZ submission while it does not guarantee your listing will be approved? Since all submission will be reviewed manually, it is not easy to get your link on DMOZ.
But anyway, there's still an option for those who really like to get a domain name listed on DMOZ. Go to Godaddy auction and find domain name that listed on DMOZ. There are lot. Plus, you also capable to find domain names that listed on Yahoo Directory.
Dmoz collects unique website with unique content. Best way to get listed in dmoz read Submission guideline carefully
Don't worry friend. Don't leave your hopes. I am also get listed in DMOZ around 2.6 years. So Please wait.
Best of Luck :)
can not put my website into dmoz and I guess they don not put them in directory below pr4
Best tip is to read their guidelines most don't and get declined for these factors, one of my sites took six months at least to get listed.
I don't think there would be anyone in the world that can tell you the secret of being listed in dmoz. May be only the owner of dmoz can be certain of its listing to be get approved. I have submitted my website several times in dmoz but could not get it listed and I guess it is the case with more than 90% of the people who have tried to submit their site on dmoz.
One of the thing you have to consider - if your prospective section doesn't have en editor... well you might wait for ages. I tried to submit site once. Neither that section not the section above and above had editors. I suppose I could resubmit afterseveral years of waiting but the situation didn't change...
Thats all you can do. Doing anything more than submitting once to the one best category will be counterproductive.
All you have to do is:
1. Have a site that is worthy of being listed. It has to be better and have information that the sites listed do not already have.
2. Write a perfect guideline compliant title and descriptin - this may get an editors attention sonner in the cesspool of keyword stuffed title and descriptions.
3. Submit once to the one best category. Submitting more than once or to more than one category will hurt you
4. Move on and forget about it as there is NOTHING more you can do. Do not submit again. Do not email the editor.
When an editor choses to work on a category and decides that they want to add sites they have numerous places to go to look for more sites. The pool of suggested sites is just one source (the worst source) that they may or may not use.
It takes very long time to approve submission & even then it hardly approves. My 5 sites are still pending for approval. I think they only approves paid listings.
I got a response from the Editor of dmoz in 6 weeks, there is a clever way of getting approved very quickly, the clue is to study all the pages you click from until you arrive where you want to be listed then study that page thoroughly before submitting.
Hi,
I did it in your way. First time I added my weather site about 1 year ago, but didnt get any response. Maybe this time it works:)
DMOZ, also known as the Open Directory Project or ODP for short, is essentially a web directory much like Yahoo's except that it is maintained by a community of volunteer editors. Getting into DMOZ will increase your page rank but I've found that page rank matters very little to the actual search rankings.
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Getting your website listed in the DMOZ directory in anything less than geologic time frames is next to impossible. Most SEOs submit their sites and then forget about ever getting listed. However, there is a way to guarantee that your site will be included in the DMOZ directory quickly: become a DMOZ editor for the category in which you have applied to have your website listed.
Dmoz is a high authority directory website which puts websites in their database upon rigorous vetting process. Your website should be really good to get in there. Yes getting a link from Dmoz is very good for SEO , but it may take few weeks to months for approval of your website and approval isn't always guaranteed. So it's not worth the wait.
Well, the quick answer is that it depends. It depends on which category and how active the editors are in that category. If you want to add your site to the "right" category it can take about a month. If you want to add your site to the "wrong" category, I've read in the DMOZ forum about people waiting for 2-3 years!
That seems to be the general advice for DMOZ. It's a waiting game, so patience is key. You can try submitting your site and hope for the best, but in the meantime, focusing on other SEO strategies might also be beneficial for your website's visibility.