Submitting Multiple URLs to DMOZ

Hi,

I have a themed site about celebrities listed below:

http://www.celebrityscreenshots.com/

I want to make multiple submissions from this site based on a particular celebrity, for example

TOM CRUISE
Submit From:
http://www.celebrityscreenshots.com/actors/tom_cruise/
To dmoz.org Target:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/C/Cruise,_Tom/

JULIA ROBERTS
Submit From:
http://www.celebrityscreenshots.com/actresses/julia_roberts/

To dmoz.org target
http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/R/Roberts,_Julia/

I have several dozen submissions I would like to make. Is there a daily limit from a particular site? I would like to be able to submit around 10 a day and at most 40 sites and that would be it.

I feel the site is well themed with original content and would add to the dmoz directory. Thank you.

Here is the simple answer - others will expound.

Don't even think about doing that.

Don't make even a single submission until you read and understand http://www.dmoz.org/add.html and read every thread in this forum about the same subject until you understand why this is wrong.

What bobrat said, but even lounder.

To paraphrase one of my favorite ex-Presidents (RMN):

"You could do that, but it would be wrong!"

No I don't understand why this is wrong. I have read the guidelines and as far as they say this is permissable. I have seen many other sites do this:

AllStarz.org
AskMen.com
mtv.com
atPictures.com

How is my site different from these sites?

All of them submit different themes to different categories.

Go back and read the guidelines again because it is obvious that you only read the parts that support your desire to submit all those pages.

Submit only the topmost page to the single best category. If you submit 40+ pages you will most likely be considered a directory spammer.

Editors almost never accept deeplink suggestions from webmasters, [generalizations on] since every webmaster believes in his or her heart that every page they made is worthy of a separate link [generalizations off]. If an editor deems certain pages worthy of an additional listing, they will manually add the deep link (or not).

Trust us on this -- what you are proposing to do will not bode well for you.

Many sites are listed multiple times. They are typically large sites with established reputations for content (and, generally, many many contributors). Your site may also aspire to that kind of reputation, but it will take a lot of work. And don't expect listings to ever be "automatic on submittal" -- even Smithsonian Magazine and the BBC don't get that!

Remember, editors have dealt with (and daily deal with):

(1) THOUSANDS of OTHER sites that were aggressive submitters and passive content collectors --
(2) Several very major sites that had built a reputation and then started coasting on it, to the point that surfers would suspect editors of abuse --
(2) Hundreds of sites that started out with grand plans, and never carried any of them through to fruition.

You can ask how you're different from Project Gutenberg and the Library of Congress -- we wonder, with MUCH more justification both logical and heuristic, how you are different from Aaron's Celebrity Babes (to mention just one notorious example out of thousands).

So don't offer promises -- we have more of them than we need. And don't expect assurance of listings. No site is guaranteed even one listing, let alone multiple ones. And
we never (What, never? No, never!... anyway) offer webmasters promises of listings.

Build some subsites that are worth listing. You've already set yourself above many sites, in that you HAVE come up with one subsite deemed "exceptional." Do it again, ten times in a row, and you'll have the makings of a good reputation, and possibly several listings to boot. But however many listings you have, that reputation will be worth more than them all. And listings (not just in the ODP, but everywhere) follow the reputation.)

thank you for clarifying.