DMOZ Web Traffic Question

Hello:

I've noticed some traffic hitting my site - www.saxongifts.com - from the following DMOZ servers:

editors.dmoz.org[censored]/editors/editunrev.cgi
editors.dmoz.org[censored]/editors/editcat-unrev.cgi

I've submitted my site to DMOZ (June 11, 2003) and I suppose that this might be the editor filing or revising my site? If so, great! I’m just curious on the "unrev" in the url. Can someone shed some light on the source? It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to read (and/or respond).

Best regards,

Brian
Saxon Gifts

Brian,

it just means that there are one or more submissions for this URL awaiting review and that an editor has pulled up the list and clicked on the listing for your site. This may be for a number of reasons, and it should not be interpreted as anything specific.

Hope this clarifies.

Someone looked at the site, from its submission (any submission has a status of "Unreviewed" until it's actually "accepted", which turns it into a "listing" (presumably of a "reviewed" website).

But, since editors don't know what they are going to do with the site until they review it, the referer by which they _entered_ the site logically _can't_ tell you what they did. So don't expect to see a pattern.

There are many things that an editor _might_ have done, including deciding "I can't deal with this right now; first I've got to extinguish the fire in the attic and reprimand my teenager." For one reason or another (not always incendiary in nature) I abandon a significant minority of the submittals I review. I'm sure other editors do also.

Also, if you don't see any 'hits' from DMOZ, doesn't mean an editor has not looked at it. There are different ways to review sites, one way will show a hit from DMOZ. However, I tend to use other methods, which will usually not sure any indication I was there.