status of submission for www.myhomeloanbanker.com

my website "www.myhomeloanbanker.com" was submitted to "Top: Business: Financial Services: Mortgages" a few months ago, but it's not listed. Is there something else I should be doing to get listed for my site?

Thanks,
Hisloans

Read over the forum guidelines and reformat your request the proper way.

Please let me know the status of http://www.myhomeloanbanker.com, submitted Feb. 28, 2005, to
1. http://dmoz.org/Business/Financial_Services/Loans/

It is waiting there for review. As you can tell from googling, this is considered prime affiliate-spam territory, so there are quite a few sites that each have a 50% chance of being reviewed before yours -- which should add up to an expectation of unusually long delays.

Thanks

Can you tell by looking at my submission the exact date I submitted the site? I want to keep track of how long it takes for a submission to get processed. I’m writing a short essay about search engines and I'm trying to focus on DMOZ.org

Thanks you,
Amir

You said yourself when you submitted it. The information is irrelevant anyway. Many sites get listed within 24 hours. Many others may take a week or two. That is one reason you are asked to wait a month from submission to ask for a status report - a very large percentage are processed in that time and it would be wasting our time to check those. Still more can take up to a year, and a small number can wait anything from a year to five years.

The factors involved are complex - where editors feel like editing being one, how much time they have, whether a sector of the directory is a spam magnet, etc. Most of the people who come to this forum haven't seen their site listed so it stands to reason that these are the ones submitting to the categories most popular with submitters and/or least popular with editors. Loans are one area where it seems everyone and their dog has something to offer yet most editors find yawn-inducing and a real pain due to the amount of checking each site requires.

So if you are going to treat your submission as research for this essay I would not be in the least bit surprised if you are still at that research stage by the time a five year loan taken out now has been fully paid off. On the other hand if you were offering us a content-rich site on a medical ailment or a scientific paper or a few hundred thousand other topics then your site would most likely have been listed in the blink of an eye.

Hope that helps.

How are you going to take into account the possibility that the site might not be eligible for listing, and therefore the wait to a listing would be infinity?

A quick question.

Why is it so difficult to get a site listed on a public directory? This is really interesting to me because I would have thought that since it is a public directory and it is run by volunteer editors that the process should go through in a very nice and quick way. However what I found in my brief submission process is that for some odd reason the editors of this forum are helpful with what I call response critic. I simple don’t have five years to list a site and wait to write my paper. I would like to get a quick answer to a simple question when do you think my web site would get listed and at what point I should resubmit to a different category where I have a greater chance of inclusion within let say a month. I would also like to know who is the editor for the category I selected and also if I could contact him directly.

I’m really sorry if I insulted anyone but I really want to complete my research and finish my paper. I know that the directory I choose is probably broad and none specific but for now the only site I have for submission is “myhomeloanbanker.com”.

Thank you very much,

Amir

I would like to get a quick answer to a simple question when do you think my web site would get listed

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We don't have that information - your guess is as good as ours. Literally.

at what point I should resubmit to a different category where I have a greater chance of inclusion within let say a month.

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That's a much easier question! The answer is never. Please don't ever suggest your site to any other than the most suitable category. If you do, your site suggestion will be moved to the more suitable category, it won't be listed in the less well-fitting category. More waiting for you, more work for the editors, lose-lose situation.
Also remember that we are talking about time until review - if the reviewing editor decides to include the site, it is also the time until inclusion, but there is no guarantee for that. We promise to review sites, not to list them.

I would also like to know who is the editor for the category I selected and also if I could contact him directly.

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Several hundred people can edit in that category. You are free to contact any editor directly but be aware that editors are encouraged not to respond to submitters by private email.

I’m really sorry if I insulted anyone but I really want to complete my research and finish my paper.

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Nope, we're not insulted, and believe me I can relate to wanting to finish your paper! But please don't base that on the inclusion of your site in the ODP - we're not joking or trying to scare you or put you off when we say that it can take five years until review. It's the truth, and the proof is that we sometimes review sites that were suggested in 2000. (Very rarely - it's much more common to review ones suggested in 2005 - but still.)

You know, if you really want to understand the ODP process -- and the advantages and problems it has -- you could try picking a relatively spam-free category (like your hometown's Education or Society categories) and see if you can find some good appropriate sites that aren't listed. If you can't -- you've learned something about the ODP. If you can -- then apply to be an editor. Add some sites, check out the submittals, listen to the conversation. And really learn something.

You might even find out how, without even looking at the site, I can confidently bet 10-to-1 against it being eligible for listing anyway. It's no secret.

Which do you think will make a better paper: "I waited five years and my site still isn't listed" or "how I put my hometown on the map"?

PLEASE NOTICE
The same person (hisloans) has asked about the same site in http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35902