Question to the editor

webman101

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I have submited my site 3 times this year and I have not got a email saying we got your request or we are just running behind our your site does not meet our gidelines are anything. I would just like to get a response as to the next step or what i need to do to know that my site has been recieved and we are looking at it. Something Please.:(
 

nea

Meta & kMeta
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When you have suggested a site to the ODP, you get a screen (in the browser) which says

Submission Received
Your site submission has been received.
An editor will review your submission for inclusion in the directory.

If you do not see that screen, your site suggestion probably wasn't received, but if you do see it, it means that the suggestion made it into the system.

You can easily find out if the site conforms to the guidelines, by following the link submission policies and instructions (which is the first item in the instructions for suggesting a site, so you will have seen them already). As for "running behind", that is not really applicable to what we do. You might be interested in reading some answers to frequently asked questions about suggesting a site for review in the ODP. If you still have questions after reading that, you are welcome to come back and ask them.
 

shadow575

kEditall/kCatmv
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When you suggested your site (all three times) you will see a "confirmation" page when the suggestion process is complete. That is most likely the only feedback you will ever receive. Also note that on all three suggestions that you made, you acknowledged reading the submission guidelines which included the following instructions:
Please only submit a URL to the Open Directory once. Again, multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.
Emphasis was mine. Three suggestions won't get you labeled a spammer, you have to work a little harder than that. However you are fighting yourself if the eventual reviewing editor chooses to review sites by submission date as each of your suggestions have over-ridden the previous ones. There is no need to resubmit any more (assuming that you have resuggested the URL once since the "Great Crash" of last fall, in which case its advisable to resuggest the URL once more but only if you haven't suggested it since the first of this year).

Your suggestion was received if you saw the confirmation page after pressing the submit button. DMOZ does not provide a listing service for site owners, no site is guaranteed a listing (it must meet the guidelines for inclusion), and not all suggested sites will be listed. All suggested URL's must be reviewed by a volunteer editor, there is no way to predict when that will be or even which editor will be the reviewer. Once you have suggested your URL, (thank you!)
your part is done. There is nothing further that you need to do, the editors will eventually get to the suggestion and make a determination.

<add>Again, nea types faster. :) <end>
 
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