4little1s started this topic @ 07:12 on 21/08/2008
I know registering with DMOZ takes a long time as its human reviewed, but in practice of the people that have been included, how long did it actually take out of interest ?
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RE: DMOZ
smithy1 | 06/09/2008 06:03 AM
It is difficult to get listed on DMOZ. It's been about a year for me and no response yet. It is helpful to be listed there but as mentioned before I think the search engines are looking more at a website's content and not its listings.
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RE: DMOZ
technohead | 22/09/2008 10:47 AM
I think it was about 5 months after sumbmission on Dmoz that I actually saw the listing. Your listing on DMOZ used to help a lot and now not so much. Especially as Dmoz maybe being sold to another directory company it is likely that google will not use Dmoz as a mirror for its own directory.
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RE: DMOZ
DiphThong | 26/11/2008 08:16 AM
Agreed submit and forget, check once a month. Yahoo still populate their directory using DMOZ though, not sure how google view it now, the hting is that a lot of the ready made directory scripts out there have DMOZ parsing and it tends to get duplicated a lot, not sure what long term affect that has, but having done it myself I can tell you that if you do that your directory will get blcklisted by google.
RE: DMOZ
ShoreDutton | 04/03/2009 11:47 AM
I've found 2-3 months to be the average. Any longer and it will probably never be be listed.
One option is to apply to become an editor for your chosen category. Of course, you must be ethical about it and not abuse the system by listing only your own sites. And you must devote a little time each week to improve the category listings as a whole, but this shouldn't be too difficult as it should be withi your field of expertise. Read the editor guidelines first.
As has been previously mentioned, Google doesn't rate DMOZ as highly as it once did but it sill adds some weight to your website.
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RE: DMOZ
franchiseshop | 20/03/2009 12:05 PM
Old thread but thought I would put my reply in :-)
2 years and 4 months now since I submitted and still no joy. They say not to resubmit but I did around 6 months ago as it seemed that nothing was happening.
In that time I have seen a few small sites in my industry added but not mine. Seems to be either pot luck or you need to bribe the editors somehow. Who knows but I have all but given up.
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RE: DMOZ
Peter W | 05/04/2009 06:43 PM
I don't agree with "submit once and then forget about it."
I applied once and was rejected, so I improved my site, applied again 6 months later and was immediately accepted.
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ZENEDISON | 08/05/2009 10:56 PM
wow. It took some of you guys a year??? I must have been lucky to have my site reviewed and included in a week!
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RE: DMOZ
GoodFTA | 24/05/2009 05:43 AM
I know people that have been waiting for over three or two years for their submissions to be accepted. You would have better luck becoming a moderator on their forums and then submitting your own details, although doing it this way is frowned upon.
You will have better luck paying yahoo for their site directory.
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RE: DMOZ
Gunzory | 10/06/2009 12:27 AM
A listing on DMOZ may have been important in the past, but it doesn't appear to hold any particular weighting by itself in modern algorithms. A decent backlink maybe, but it doesn't give any special bounce in rankings other than for the anchor text used in the title, which could be gained with any decent directory. I have observed through acceptance of my own sites, a very slight gain in rankings, but nothing that would suggest a listing holds any special place within the algorithm of the big G. It's blatantly obvious that some people will completely ignore or misunderstand the guidelines, they do with many directories. However, most people tend to take more care when submitting to DMOZ, and do generally have something worth submitting. Through my own experience, it doesn't matter what you submit and how well you do it, if it's to certain categories you just wont get listed. The sites that I submitted which were accepted, were to a category I knew had a reliable and honest editor. That is the key.
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RE: DMOZ
nanoka_j | 11/06/2009 11:36 PM
There are tons of directories you can submit to. Some are free while some aren't. For example, Yahoo directory is a good one (USD 299). If you can afford, I think it's worth.
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RE: DMOZ
webbo | 14/07/2009 10:13 PM
I've submitted 3 sites to dmoz and they've all been accepted. As far as I remember it was only a few weeks.
Don't actually get much traffic from it though.
RE: DMOZ
Anca | 16/07/2009 01:00 PM
Dmoz was dead (or at least had huge problems) for a long period of time. If webbo is saying its sites have been accepted recently, then it means it is alive again.
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