6 months and still not listed. Rejected??

Our site <url> is ranked 2-5 on Google for all our key search terms and we have worked to develop a clean, quality site. We submited our site to DMOZ in Jan. At what point can we assume we were rejected?

Compare your site against the directory listing Guidelines. If it meets all the criteria and its not listed the most likely reason is none of the volunteer editors have reviewed it yet. If it doesn't meet those guidelines, its likely that it has been rejected or will be when someone does find time to review it. Google search and keyword search terms play absolutely no part in the inclusion of a site or an editors review.

If you have suggested your site, thank you! Unfortunately there is no way to predict when someone will be available and interested to review the suggestion.

Hope that helps.

shadow575 said:

Unfortunately there is no way to predict when someone will be available and interested to review the suggestion.

Hope that helps.

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why not?

what is your purpose if you have editors that do not have time and are not interested?

i believe many editors will have jobs. i bet they never say "not interested" to their employer

But the ODP isn't a job. It's something that people volunteer to help with. As such we are grateful to any time they do give to help improve the directory. Since editors have permissions, rather than responsibilities, a less active editor in no way stops someone else from doing some of the work in their area. Thus, someone who does just one good edit every week is still making a useful contribution, that we wouldn't have without them. For that we are grateful.

Currently, we get a large number of site suggestions, and only have a finite number of editors to look at them. Moreover, reviewing public suggestions is not "the job" -- instead we aim to build a useful directory, and publich suggestions are just one possible source of new sites to consider adding. There are also many other things that take up editors' time as well as adding new sites. We find it works better to allow editors to work in areas that interest them and at whatever pace they prefer. Doing anything else would result in a rather sharp drop in editor activity. That said, some editors will choose to work in areas where they feel there is lots of work to be done. But we are still unable to make any predictions of when a particular listing may be reviewed.

fair comment

but does this not then cause the web surfer looking for specific information to be denied that information, because there are no interested editors?

Web surfers looking for specific information have a variety of methods to use, the ODP being only one of them.

regards

but does this not then cause the web surfer looking for specific information to be denied that information, because there are no interested editors?

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Editors are interested in a lot of jobs that are available and neccessary to do in the Directory, site suggestion reviews are one of the less important ones.

I spent a couple of days reviewing suggestions and listing most of them, and all of them happened to be new submissions in that particular area, I think the oldest was only a week old, and some had come in that very day.

Now, I'm doing a major category reorganization project which requires a lot of site sorting and time consuming investigation and dicussion with my peers.

I work for the Directory and web surfers, not for website owners, . You have a valid point, but, an editor can only do one thing at a time, and there are many things that need to be done.

smartwater said:

why not?

what is your purpose if you have editors that do not have time and are not interested?

i believe many editors will have jobs. i bet they never say "not interested" to their employer

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As was already mentioned, this is not a job its a hobby. And don't misread my comment. I did not say that the "editors didn't have time and are not interested in editing", what I said was there was no way to predict when an editor would be available or interested to review the suggestion. There is two meanings to that comment and neither were what you interpreted it to be. First part about availability, simply means that editors are free to choose when, where and how long they wish to edit (with in their editing permissions). There is no way to predict when, where or how long any editor will work on any one particular category. The second part about not being interested, means that if an editor is dedicating time to edit and chooses this category to work on, there is no way to predict if that editor will be interested in reviewing public suggestions. Basically the public suggestions are only 1 very small resource editors use to find and list quality sites. In many categories the pool of public suggestions is rendered useless by the onslaught of spam, mirrors, redirects and other unlistable junk. In those areas, an experienced editor deciding to work on the category will in many (most?) cases ignore the site suggestions in favor of more fruitful and productive resources for finding sites.

smartwater said:

but does this not then cause the web surfer looking for specific information to be denied that information, because there are no interested editors?

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The editors are all websurfers who volunteer their time in areas that are of interest to them. Anyone is free to suggest sites to a category at any time, and thankfully many times its NOT the site owner but rather a visitor who does suggest a site. The goal of the project is not to list all the sites on each topic we catalog, rather its to list a broad coverage of the best and most unique information on the topic. If a surfer finds an area of the directory that they are interested in helping and its not up to par on sites, they are welcomed and encouraged to apply to help out or simply suggest the sites that we are missing and in which they have located through other avenues.

but does this not then cause the web surfer looking for specific information to be denied that information, because there are no interested editors?

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Yes, but unless/until we have the situation of editors running out of things to do that do really interest them, there will have to be parts of the directory that are less complete / high quality than some of our users would like them to be. As far as I know it's not the case that we have large numbers of editors with nothing to do since they've done all they can to their favourite areas and refuse to work elsewhere. And even if there were, what could be done about it; they're all volunteers after all...

(Personally, I've got about 10 times as much stuff I'd like to do editing-wise than I actually have time to get though).

Yes, and some of us are easily distracted by other projects, .

Eric-the-Bun said:

Web surfers looking for specific information have a variety of methods to use, the ODP being only one of them.

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your not thinking of the people that just might (for some reason) have DMOZ set as their home page on their PC/Laptop/MAC

How can i find out it if my site is pending inclusion?

I submitted my website which seems like months ago, yet hasn't been included into the directory, as i check quite often. How can i find out if it is pending or has been rejected. It is highly unique and of great benefit to many people and is rapidly growing.

Please advise of the best way to find this out. Thanks so much!!

You are asking for a service that this site does not provide.

your not thinking of the people that just might (for some reason) have DMOZ set as their home page on their PC/Laptop/MAC

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We think of those people a lot, I assure you (I know several colleagues of mine have dmoz.org as their starting point on the web, for instance.)

However, it would be dishonest of us to promise something that we can't fulfill, namely what other people are going to choose to do in their free time. I know that the editors' activities are collectively making the directory a better resource all the time (assisted by non-editors in various ways, such as suggesting sites for inclusion or telling us about dead URLs that are listed). I can't, however, make any predictions about specific sites or categories. The directory isn't complete, and due to the nature of the web never will be. All we can do is make it better