BASIC dmoz directory question

I have submitted my site several times and i am not in the dir yet i have a decent site w/ decent content how long does it usually take to get included in to this dir? any timps or tricks thanks

It can take anything from a couple of weeks to over a year. My advice is once you have done submitting your site to DMOZ then forget about it.

Don't go submitting any more than once because you'll only penalize yourself and get thrown back down the line each time you do.

Don't lose any sleep about not getting into DMOZ - I have about 2 sites out of about 15 that are registered in it and the ones that I'm still waiting on still get excellent SERPs without DMOZ's inclusion.

Why do people desperately want to get to DMOZ now, I believe the times when DMOZ was the only way to get indexed by Google are over, so what's the point of that fuss?

The point of DMOZ today is that it's still a decent one-way backlink to get. One-ways are the good even if they are on a very average site, but with a site that's actually affiliated with Google like DMOZ is, it's a lot more of a boost. Granted that today it's not taken as it was a year or so back, but any link is a good link!

The slower DMOZ gets in indexing and including sites, the less value they have. The truth is, they are ridiculously slow. Also, I've seen them include crap sites, misrepresent sites completely, and not include great sites. No other directory is as slow. They should move to a paid inclusion model if that would help. They need to realize that if people lose faith in them, they are useless. It is all about trust and they are definitely losing the trust of most people.

Actually it's the opposite. If they included too many sites it would get watered down and useless. That's why most are rejected.



These days DMOZ doesn't exist for the end user. I don't know anyone who goes to DMOZ first to find a site they're looking for. Google uses it because it's valuable to their index. Paid inclusion would completely defeat the purpose because those who don't want to spend the money would never be included.

There are a number of sites (online directories) that feed of DMOZ that do get quite an astonishing number of visitors and help generate traffic to your site. However, that said, your better off getting your website (if its a business) listed in Google's Local Business Directory rather then huffing and puffing about DMOZ.

If your site is not very unique you will likely not get in. Sites such as web hosting, web design etc will have a really hard time getting in because there is an excess of them and generally they all offer web hosting but not much else as far as uniqueness among the industry.

If they consider your site an authority even for a specific section of the world you have a chance of getting in. I have had clients sites(location authority specific) who got in DMOZ very fast without even submitting. Sites that offer unique tools or services or which are considered to be valuable resources will have a good chance of getting in. As PWS said in certain sections in Dmoz the traffic from dmoz itself and its sub-sites(sites the directory powers) can be very good.

Hey Verdicus.

I'm not talking about that. I fully believe in high, even strict standards. But DMOZ is inconsistent, even with their own guidelines. It's getting ridiculous. Read these posts from SEOmoz - they echo things I've seen and heard personally:

• Dirty Tricks at the DMOZ
• Getting a Link from DMOZ Isn't Worth What It Once Was

I agree that it doesn't exist for the end user! In my opinion (and that's only my opinion), that makes a directory useless. Even as an SEO, I will say that a directory should be useful to users first, search engines second.

Visio - very true and good points. Unfortunately there IS corruption at DMOZ and things get manipulated often enough that you can't count on those things being true consistently.

Yeah I have seen that at times. Some sections do seem to have that problem. There isn't much you can do in that situation, submit and forget is a good motto for dmoz. Hopefully you get a good editor and have a good site.

Just get on as an editor, add your link, and quit! I'm pretty sure a lot of people do that.

Seriously though, I submitted a site about 2 and a half years ago that STILL doesn't show up. It's a solid site, too.

Nuts to DMOZ.

Not quite that easy. It can take almost half a year or more for them to review your editor app and you have you prove you are knowledge and will be useful in that area which means that if they do accept you likely your site could have gotten in anyways. It is a pain getting in at first so if your only objective is to submit your own site it isn't worth it.