Comments on: DMOZ submission tips

By: Pokies

Pokies — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:50:19 +0000

Our sites has been offered a couple of times and nothing happened. We saw lots of other sites being accepted ever since. We made a last suggestion today but we think our premier gaming portal enjoys editors’ dislike or they expect something. I heard a lot of talking on editors being corrupt and in many cases they do not take real competitor’s site as they have their own site as well - listed of course. I can’t say I ever came accross any editors that I would call corrupt, in my time as a DMOZ editor. As for listing their own sites, yes they can, but they have to go through an editing process the same as you and me, from the editor above them, in the master category, or failing that, from another category. There were certainly lazy editors and editors that were full of their own self-importance and who liked to play god with their cats, but none were corrupt. The reason that your site isn’t getting on is that it’s an affilliate site and a very obvious one. The editors don’t want such obvious affilliate sites in their categories. Obvious affilliate sites offer nothing to the directory, so 90% of them are ignored.

By: peter coombs

peter coombs — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:13:58 +0000

I must admit I find this a great mystery. I have submitted to DMOZ three times now over the last eighteen months, doing my best to follow all the rules and leaving a good three months in between the submissions. The last submission was about a year ago.

My site is clean and tidy, is a 12 yr old domain but guess media and graphics is a very competitive area.

But nothing, zilch

Interesting you say about the editors being listed at the bottom of the categories - hadn’t noticed that, pehaps its time to try again. Locate an editor and write to him, but first, remove the 301 redirect from your root URL. Editors don’t like 301 redirects, even if it’s fairly inocuouis, as yours is from the root to index.php. BM

By: Antony

Antony — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:29:52 +0000

Hi, thanks for the informative article (wish I’d have thought about reading advice like this before submitting to Dmoz).

As a former Dmoz editor, can I ask you whether it is worth re-submitting if a submission hasn’t been listed after a year?

Truthfully, I’m at a loss to understand why our submission hasn’t gone through.

From what I can see, we adhered to all the points you make in your article.

Thanks Antony

I would suggest that you write again to the editor of the upper category and ask him to look into it, before resubmitting. For example, if you are in the cat Shopping: Crafts: Toiletries, you have to go back to shopping before you find an editors name and that’s sunkist. His email address is pageje67@hotmail.com. If you email him directly and briefly explain the situation and briefly outline the details of your listing and ask his advice on how to move forward. Good luck with it. BM