A certain level of importance is placed on a listing on DMOZ.org. I just checked Alexa and their submission requirements are to be listed on DMOZ.org
That certain level of importance only exists in the minds of some people. And other people (mainly so called SEO experts) try to fool these people to keep believing those myths.
It's important. It's important to people that are putting their time and energy, and in some cases placing their livelihoods, into the success of their websites. Computer programming has switched over to open-source, the web is an open-source community,
It is very simple. If a webiste can not become a succes by its own and by the work of its owner the website is not worth being on the internet. We would DMOZ list websites that can not survice. It only gives us more work checking all those short lived sites. We want websites that will offer a long standing experience for our visitors.
so when we submit something that is important to us, and we submit it to an organization that has garnered a level of importance in the success of our websites I think it is natural to want to know the results of that submission.
We are not interested in what is important to the owner of a website. We only care for our visitors. The people who are looking for information.
I have a website. I have spent a good deal of time and money on this website and I am very proud of it.
It would be very strange if you were net proud of the things you do yourself. But that is not something DMOZ take sinto account when reviewing a website.
I would really like to get a listing on DMOZ.org. Why can't I get a status update on the listing of my website?
The answer is given in thread marked important with the title
Note: These threads are NOT for Submission Status! and on the announcement that thread links to.
Simply said. There are 3 options for a site that is suggested to DMOZ
1) it is reviewed and listed (everybody can see which sites are listed, no use in telling the owner
2) it is reviewed and rejected (everybody can read which sites we will not list, why tell somebody that he should not have wasted our time, it only gives him info we do not want him to have, such people just suggest the same spam over and over hoping we might change our mind, we won't)
3) if it is not listed and not rejected it must still be waiting review (no need to tell anybody as they can dedcut it themself by looking at 1 and 2)
