PaulosJonas
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- Sep 17, 2011
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Just over 16 months ago, after plenty of careful consideration, I submitted my website to DMOZ, I then 'forgot about it' - safe in the knowledge it can take 2 weeks / 2 years / 2 decades etc etc for someone to even consider my site…
On 17th Sept 2011 I had a hit to my website from a DMOZ back link - which when clicked takes me to a log in page.
The domain within the back link tracks back to the directory of my original submission. Therefor its safe to surmise that it was the editor of that page visiting my site.
It could be argued that the editor was simply viewing submissions at that time with no further action, and that doesn't necessarily constitute an actual visit to my website. However, the visitor to my website carried out 3 actions, a visit to my homepage lasting 8 seconds, clicking an outgoing link, then clicking on my contact page where the page was viewed for 12 seconds.
I visited the directory I submitted my site to and the change log date at the bottom shows that the page was updated on the 17th Sept just an hour after the visit.
I looked for my submission thinking that now a DMOZ editor had looked at my site and updated the page that I would be included… But I'm not listed. Nor can I search for my site or find myself via an advanced search in Google.
That leaves me with 2 thoughts:
1 - My submission has been arbitrarily rejected because there are no issues in terms of functionality or tone etc. My site has won multiple 'site of the day' style awards, has enjoyed a rapid upsurge in Google results and has a visitor conversion of 2-3, not to mention it's built to strict standards, is working correctly and has been tested to the hilt across web browsers and platforms and degrades gracefully.
2 - It's been moved to another category. I looked around on the page for other websites/businesses and found multiple entries which matched mine. Amazingly, some of those go to dead sites or splash pages which then lead nowhere. Also, there are a couple where businesses in my own region have been listed - businesses set up after my own submission and have since closed their business down or gone into administration! The category was carefully selected after looking at the legitimacy of where my own site should be placed. My original submission wasn't done on a whim, I was careful to adhere to submissions policy as well as making sure there was no finer grain directory for me to submit to as well as looking at where other website of a similar ilk have been accepted.
To top it all off, there is no editor listed on the actual page. http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Business_Services/Design/Graphic_Design/Designers/Multi-Discipline/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/
I realise that editors are all volunteers, but if my site has been visited (albeit for less than 30seconds which leaves me scratching my head over the validity of any sort of editorial process or value in what that visitor would have been able to glean from their visit in order to make a valid decision to accept/decline) why would it not have been added?
On 17th Sept 2011 I had a hit to my website from a DMOZ back link - which when clicked takes me to a log in page.
The domain within the back link tracks back to the directory of my original submission. Therefor its safe to surmise that it was the editor of that page visiting my site.
It could be argued that the editor was simply viewing submissions at that time with no further action, and that doesn't necessarily constitute an actual visit to my website. However, the visitor to my website carried out 3 actions, a visit to my homepage lasting 8 seconds, clicking an outgoing link, then clicking on my contact page where the page was viewed for 12 seconds.
I visited the directory I submitted my site to and the change log date at the bottom shows that the page was updated on the 17th Sept just an hour after the visit.
I looked for my submission thinking that now a DMOZ editor had looked at my site and updated the page that I would be included… But I'm not listed. Nor can I search for my site or find myself via an advanced search in Google.
That leaves me with 2 thoughts:
1 - My submission has been arbitrarily rejected because there are no issues in terms of functionality or tone etc. My site has won multiple 'site of the day' style awards, has enjoyed a rapid upsurge in Google results and has a visitor conversion of 2-3, not to mention it's built to strict standards, is working correctly and has been tested to the hilt across web browsers and platforms and degrades gracefully.
2 - It's been moved to another category. I looked around on the page for other websites/businesses and found multiple entries which matched mine. Amazingly, some of those go to dead sites or splash pages which then lead nowhere. Also, there are a couple where businesses in my own region have been listed - businesses set up after my own submission and have since closed their business down or gone into administration! The category was carefully selected after looking at the legitimacy of where my own site should be placed. My original submission wasn't done on a whim, I was careful to adhere to submissions policy as well as making sure there was no finer grain directory for me to submit to as well as looking at where other website of a similar ilk have been accepted.
To top it all off, there is no editor listed on the actual page. http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Business_Services/Design/Graphic_Design/Designers/Multi-Discipline/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/
I realise that editors are all volunteers, but if my site has been visited (albeit for less than 30seconds which leaves me scratching my head over the validity of any sort of editorial process or value in what that visitor would have been able to glean from their visit in order to make a valid decision to accept/decline) why would it not have been added?
