How do i know if an editor review my website???

Hi, I've submitted my company website on dmoz, but don't know if they check it or accept it, is there a way to find out if my website is submitted because on dmoz i searched but didn't find anything , pls need help, want to increase my company website rank!

Hello

If you have already submitted your site then you have done everything you need to do. You can periodically do a search for your URL to see if it has been listed (just use the format yourdomain.com without the http://www.).

We don't worry about search engine rankings at DMOZ, so for that you might want to visit some of the sites listed at http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion/

This is the wrong place to look for a boost in search engine rankings.

Sure, an ODP listing may give such a boost. But here's the rub, anything it does for YOU, it does just as well for all your competitors -- and it may do for them FIRST! (Someone has to be first, but online nobody knows you from Adam's second-favorite housecat...so it might not be you.)

Make your plans based on the assumption that your site won't be listed in the ODP. That way, if it isn't listed -- you'll have done the best thing. And if it IS listed, it will get that (possibly mythical) ODP boost, ON TOP OF your best work. So, either way, listed or not listed, you'll have done the best thing.

The beauty of it is, if you think about it that way, you don't have to know whether it'll ever be listed or not. You just have to start doing the right thing, right away....

I am surprised to see that the dmoz directory is kind of limited regarding categories and number of entries per category, even though there are a lot of people who strive to be listed here.

pierre2g said:

I am surprised to see that the dmoz directory is kind of limited regarding categories and number of entries per category, even though there are a lot of people who strive to be listed here.

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I don't understand what you mean.

"Limited regarding categories"
we have some 590.000 categories, I wouldn't call that limited

"limited number of entries per category"
There is no limit to the number of sites in a category. But if the number becomes to high we prefer to create some subcategories to help people find websites more easely.

"there are a lot of people who strive to be listed here"
Yes. But to be honest, most of the websites they want to be listed do not meet our guidelines and will be rejected.

Pierre, would you be surprised to find out your bank is limited in assets even though so many people strive for more money?

I can say this. Anything that is strenuous enough to be called "striving" to be listed, we'd call "vicious spamming." And yes, we know there are a LOT of people viciously spamming daily.

But people who create websites _worth_ listing, aren't doing it TO be listed: they're doing it because they want to publish some information about some subject where they have unique knowledge, some creative work they've done themselves ... Those people are "striving" to be INFORMATIVE, striving to be CREATIVE. And the ODP editors are busily working past the hordes of vicious spammers to find those people "striving" for something worth striving for.

There's no limit to the size of the directory, except the time inevitably wasted pruning away the worthless spam to get to the really informative sites.