DMOZ listing guide

[SearchBliss]

You can only submit the main URL of your site. It also may never get listed even following the instructions to a "T". It took me 6 months to get listed 8 years ago. Now it may take even longer. Just follow the submission guidlines and only submit once a month until listed.

[decipher]

You can only submit the main URL of your site. It also may never get listed even following the instructions to a "T". It took me 6 months to get listed 8 years ago. Now it may take even longer. Just follow the submission guidlines and only submit once a month until listed.

I would have to agree... thats pretty much how it went for PromoJunkie when we submitted it to DMOZ back in 2002 and it took a good couple months to get in.

[juanaballerina]

i had been dmoz editor before, so i have experience to accept or decline a website

the one that accept you is a person, no need too much theory, just build a quality website then you will accept mostly

[Anonymously]

Just follow the submission guidlines and only submit once a month until listed.

Don't, I repeat, don't re-submit your site at all let alone once a month. It is against the guidelines we issue, which says submit once. You may get your self branded as a spammer and get banned for ever.

If you don't manage to get your self listed a as spammer, then you are possibly delaying an editor looking at your site for a possible review. If you submit a second time, it overwrites the date stamping of when we received your site, so editors, like me, who when they work the suggestions pool, do it oldest first and your site will just keep getting a new date making it look like it was only recently submitted. Sometimes editors will just deal with submissions that have been around for a while, that will eliminate yours.

We do not loose sites, they stay in the pool until they are reviewed by an editor. Then they are either left, moved to the correct category, added to the directory or if they breach guidelines, deleted.

We do not inform if sites are listed or rejected, we do not do look ups to say what is happening to any site.

They are suggestions, we may use the site we may not, but after suggesting a site there is nothing more you can do to progress it at DMOZ or discover what is happening to it. Just check occasionally to see if it is listed, a listing can take from a few days to a few years.

Spend your time promoting your site somewhere else, you have done all you can at DMOZ.