Thread: Let's gather advices on DMOZ directory!

I would like raise this question to help other people to get their website listed in DMOZ! If you have something to say if you have any advices to share with us just do this in this post!

i have tried tons of times to get listed in DMOZ i think you must have to know an editor unless you have a site with really unique content.

Originally Posted by sharpwebhosting

i have tried tons of times to get listed in DMOZ i think you must have to know an editor unless you have a site with really unique content.

Why did you submit more than once? Every time you resubmit, you just overwrite the previous submission with the new date. This will move you to the bottom of the pile if the editors choose to use the submitted sites to look for new site. You are your own worst enemy in trying to get a listed.

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Originally Posted by womanizer

I would like raise this question to help other people to get their website listed in DMOZ! If you have something to say if you have any advices to share with us just do this in this post!

1. Have a site with unique content that no other site in the category has (it does not matter if your competitors are listed - you have to have content that they don't have).

2. Write a perfect guideline compliant description and title (this is a really good way to get an editors attention as it "stands out" in the pile of suggested sites)

3. Submit ONCE to the ONE best category (anymore than once is against the guidelines you agreed to and will be counterproductive)

4. Forget about. Move on. You have done all you can do.

Also remember DMOZ is NOT a listing service for webmasters and is not there to provide a service to webmasters. The editors role is to build a category of sites with unique content. They are under no obligation to even look at the pool of suggested sites. They use many sources for new sites, of which submitted sites is just one. The pool of suggested sites is the WORSE source of new sites.

What do you think if a website can be accepted by DMOZ without any submissions made!

I always thought that the best way to get in dmoz was to try and become an editor or get friendly with someone who was one.

It is a shame you would have to go to those lengths really but demand must have been huge when word got out about the benefits of inclusion.

Originally Posted by womanizer

What do you think if a website can be accepted by DMOZ without any submissions made!

Happens every day. The "suggested sites" queue is only one of the sources used to build the directory. A lot of them come from helpful sites editors have bookmarked or things they sought out while building a specific category.

I always thought that the best way to get in dmoz was to try and become an editor or get friendly with someone who was one.

It is a shame you would have to go to those lengths really but demand must have been huge when word got out about the benefits of inclusion.

Actually those vast benefits are a figment of a lotta folks imaginations... it's a good link but it's not near as valuable as a bunch of people wish. There are websites in dmoz that dont fare well in SERPs and websites not in Dmoz that do great. Don't obsess over a single link... send a well formatted submission to the proper Dmoz cat and move on with other forms of site promotion.

I have one piece of advice. Submit and forget. DMOZ means nothing to the larger scheme. I have one site listed and it had done nothing for my site. It does not even show up as a back link in Google Back links. I also have seen no traffic from them.

It was once great but now it is no better than any other directory.

Originally Posted by womanizer

What do you think if a website can be accepted by DMOZ without any submissions made!

...what RobJones said ... more than half the sites added to DMOZ were never submitted in the first place. The editors role is to find sites to list; to do that they use many sources....it just so happens that the pool of submitted sites is the worse soruce to find good sites, so many editor do not give it a priority.

the best advice is to forget about it
is not worth the effort to submit with their awfull captcha :d

wow, people still bang on about DMOZ, I submitted some sites a year ago - I've never bothered with it again since. I think like a lot of website promotion, if your site is good and unique the promotion side will happen of its own accord. Sometimes whats really hard though is when you do have a good site but are struggling to get it noticed to get the bal rolling.

Originally Posted by EricStan

the best advice is to forget about it
is not worth the effort to submit with their awfull captcha :d

So there is no successful strategy to have a website included in DMOZ directory!