Please give me a tip - What is wrong with my site?

Dear Santa,

Last two and a half years I'm trying to get listed in DMOZ with my website.
From this time I have made four or five submissions to thoughtfully chosen related categories. But still no result.

My website is related to online SEO tools and mostly offering free services, as well as a paid ones.
It has unique good-looking design and unique features.
It has lots of unique useful tips for webmasters and website owners.

Each time I made a suggestion to include the site, I created accurate title and description, according to the directory policy. But all this time I got any response from the DMOZ site, no negative, no positive, not a single line at all.
This website is the only project which I do for the last two years. It employs three people, brings good customer reviews and is well-ranked by search engines.
My previous two projects which I made ~ 5 years ago are still successfully listed and works.

I think that I missed something from on-site factors and that is why I can't get listed.

Dear Santa, please send me a professional person who can get a fresh look to my site and give me tips what may be wrong.

Thanks, and
Mary Christmas!

You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.

please send me a professional person who can get a fresh look to my site

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That would be an evaluation and these don't happen by request.

and give me tips what may be wrong

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Excessive listing suggestions aren't appreciated. I'm sure you won't be making any more.

Jimnoble, thank you for your fast response!

Do you really mean that "a few years" (in my case - 2,5 years) is not enough to make a re-submission?
Ok, volunteer's time is their own time, but I would like to know if my site is _adequate_ to_the_rules.
If so - I will continue to wait for the volunteer If no - I have to get busy improving the website.

By this thread I just wanted to ask someone from forum's members (if they'll have some free time) to inspect my site for possible purposes of DMOZ rejection

Do you really mean that "a few years" (in my case - 2,5 years) is not enough to make a re-submission?

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Eight listing suggestions to several different categories over 16 months is excessive and risks a ban.

Thanks Jim!

Could you suggest me how can I budge my situation?

I applied for audit of my website and my submission to SEO company which I trust. They said all is OK.
I tried to look for competent webmasters at freelance sites, three of them were hired by me exactly for this kind of audit. Also no possible rejection purpose was found.

I'm going to apply to SEO company, where as I know works my category editor. I'm going to ask them for the same audit. But I'm afraid they can understand me incorrectly. I'm not going to pay for submission, but I'm ready to pay for professional review of my site to rise it's quality to DMOZ demands.

To repeat what I said earlier: ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

There are hundreds of millions of websites out there and it's going to take a long time. That you've suggested your website 8 times doesn't somehow make it more listing worthy than websites that have never been suggested at all.

It's just a link. If it's going to happen, it'll happen but the timescale is uncontrollable. Any attempt to do so is unlikely to achieve the result you desire. I recommend that you ignore DMOZ (where there's nothing more for you to do) and focus on improving your website and other means of promotion.

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I applied for audit of my website and my submission to SEO company which I trust. They said all is OK.
I tried to look for competent webmasters at freelance sites, three of them were hired by me exactly for this kind of audit. Also no possible rejection purpose was found.

I'm going to apply to SEO company, where as I know works my category editor. I'm going to ask them for the same audit. But I'm afraid they can understand me incorrectly. I'm not going to pay for submission, but I'm ready to pay for professional review of my site to rise it's quality to DMOZ demands.

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What a waste of your money.
Everybody is able to see for themself what kind of websites DMOZ does list and what kind of sites we do not list. Just read the guidelines http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html
It is not posible to "raise a site's quality to DMOZ demands".
A site is either listable or it is not.