Dmoz

I can't seem to get into dmoz i don't spam them... i think i don't do anything wrong have a normal site why don't they accept me??

DMOZ is poorly managed, its not uncommon for some categories to be ignored for months and months and months. There is also editor abuse where people delete competitors sites etc.

I've given up on DMOZ. I'll submit each of my sites once, then I'll just forget about it. Some get in, some don't. The best thing you can do is make sure that your submission is well written and follows all of the guidelines. Beyond that it's not worth worrying about since there's nothing you can do that will have any effect.

DMOZ is an example of why the open source concept does not port well from software development to directory development or website content development.

A very ipmortnat thing to keep in mind.

Compare what you're submitting with the rest of the sites in the given category. Try and make your submission unique.

I have had one of two sites I submitted accepted to DMOZ. It went rather quickly while the other has had no action at all. It is frustrating but I finally gave up because it appears as the others have said, some editors are very active and others are very slow. It didn't seem worth the time and effort after a while.

it's a shame everyone uses them it's like 18 good links i could do with oh well.......

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Originally Posted by nytrokiss

it's a shame everyone uses them it's like 18 good links i could do with oh well.......

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Perhaps, but you could probably get eighteen better links in the same amount of time, and with less worry, without thinking about DMOZ.

DMOZ is simple...

Submit and forget.

:thumbs_up

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DMOZ is poorly managed, its not uncommon for some categories to be ignored for months and months and months. There is also editor abuse where people delete competitors sites etc.

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Right.. i am going to hate Dmoz :(

Opposite Problem (but related)

Perhaps you Don't Want to Get Into DMOZ? Once in, never out!

What if you want an update to your description or title? NO WAY !

Now that Google are sucking up 5 year-old titles and descriptions from DMOZ, we'd like to leave DMOZ. Editors there have point-blank refused to allow us to leave the prison (IN WRITING!)

Just like the Communists and the Berlin Wall - to keep them in!

Does anyone know of any way to get de-listed from DMOZ?

Thanks!

take your site offline.... but seriously, there is a solution:

http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog...m-directories/

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Originally Posted by Chris

take your site offline.... but seriously, there is a solution:

http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog...m-directories/

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Yes, thanks! We already use the "No effing DMOZ" meta tag for MSN

>> META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP” <<

Too bad it doesn't work for Google!

Of course, do no evil is very far from do no wrong.

In my book, any company that doesn't care about the truth IS EVIL already!


BTW- We ARE thinking of taking our sites offline, getting new domains for them, and then re-launching. But only as a last resort -- Grrrrr!

Just announced by Google today --- AVOID DMOZ TITLES

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP">
<meta name="msnbot" content="NOODP">
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" content="NOODP">

http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/07...-snippets.html

THANKS Google Guys !

I saw the other day that MSN was going to support this, it is good to see that Google is going to support this as well. I've already implemented the ROBOTS version site wide yesterday. :)