What to do now?

marksteve_74 · May 23, 2005

I have submitted my site to DMOZ one month before. I was just waiting for a month to complete, to check the status of my submission.

As the discontinuation of the status check forum, now I don’t have a clue whether my site is submitted successfully or waiting for approval or rejected for some reason.

This makes the process complicated especially people like me as I don’t have any information about whether my site is worth to be included in the directory. It also leaves me with out giving a chance to correct my site in case if it got rejected, as I will not be knowing it is rejected or not.

Please some one advice me what to do now.

pvgool · May 23, 2005

If you got the confirmation screen after you submitted the form the suggestion has been received.

All information to know if a site is not worth listing are available on DMOZ. See http://dmoz.org/add.html and http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html#notinclude

It is our experience that most sites that are rejected can not be changed in such a way that they become listable. The only exception I can see if a site is under construction now and add a lot of content before being resuggested. But as you should have known you are not allowed to suggest sites that are still Under Construction.

hutcheson · May 23, 2005

You can go ahead and correct your site now; maybe it'll be correct in time for the review.

Since the ODP is about information, putting more information on the site is always a sure bet. "Who are you and what do you know?" "Who are you and what will you do for money?" "Who are you and what happened to you?" are the sort of questions editors will ask.

But ... thing is, your next move doesn't depend on any information from the ODP. Pretend the ODP never existed. What would you do THEN? Take down your site, promote it yourself, work on your language skills, get a real job, hie thee to a nunnery, whatever?

"Then" is now. So get on with it. You won't regret it.

marksteve_74 · May 23, 2005

Thanks for the info

I just wanted to know how we will know the status now? Even if it is rejected.

pvgool · May 23, 2005

You don't.

spectregunner · May 23, 2005

You can periodically browse the likely categories to see if it appears.
You can check your logs to see if you are getting traffic from DMZ

rg
You can use Google or Yahoo or any number of other search engines to do a restricted search only on our contents.

hutcheson · May 23, 2005

>I just wanted to know how we will know the status now?

You don't. WE still want to know what you'd do with the status if you got it.

ChampJ · May 23, 2005

hutcheson said:
>I just wanted to know how we will know the status now?

You don't. WE still want to know what you'd do with the status if you got it.

How about not re-submit (suggest)?

That's all I wanted from the status check is to know you got them and patiently wait my 3mo-3yr.

I, for one, suggested several sites and got confirmation screens. However, the first time I asked for a check I was told that they were never received. Sooo... I suggested again, got the confirmation screens again, waited 36 days and was then told (Fri) that if I got the screens everything was okeedokee.. though I'm obviously not conviced.

Unfortunately for folks like myself, we now may never know...it seems once again the bad apples have ruined something else for the rest of us. Shame really.

Alucard · May 24, 2005

ChampJ said:
Unfortunately for folks like myself, we now may never know...it seems once again the bad apples have ruined something else for the rest of us. Shame really.

I agree - a big shame.

oneeye · May 24, 2005

How about not re-submit (suggest)?

If you re-submit it overwrites the previous suggestion and if the editor is in the ever diminishing band of editors who sort by date received then the site goes to the bottom of their priorities. We cannot stop you resubmitting if you are concerned a site hasn't been received but otherwise it is a waste of time.

ChampJ · May 24, 2005

If you re-submit it overwrites the previous suggestion and if the editor is in the ever diminishing band of editors who sort by date received then the site goes to the bottom of their priorities. We cannot stop you resubmitting if you are concerned a site hasn't been received but otherwise it is a waste of time.

In reading the forums I am all too aware of the above. However, it still doesn't address the question of knowing whether or not the suggestion was even received. Really the only thing I'm interested in given that I've learned not to trust the confirmation screen. Like I said, I'm patient

Without the ability to check, what would you suggest? Hope for the best and re-suggest every one to five years regardless?

*wondering what trouble there would be in an automated suggestion confirmation e-mail as well as approval/denial notice - even for those sites found without the owners knowledge..* hmmm <-- surely been discussed before right?

hutcheson · May 25, 2005

>Hope for the best and re-suggest every one to five years regardless?

That's probably reasonable. But, don't forget, that leaves 365.23 or so days left in that year to do something constructive.

ChampJ · May 25, 2005

That's probably reasonable. But, don't forget, that leaves 365.23 or so days left in that year to do something constructive.

Point taken hutcheson

It'll just be my luck that one of my sites are at the top of the FIFO editors list the day I re-suggest only to fall to the bottom

marksteve_74 · May 26, 2005

hutcheson said:
>I just wanted to know how we will know the status now?

You don't. WE still want to know what you'd do with the status if you got it.

If my site picked by the editors themselves i wont realy care about whether it is included or not. But as i have submitted to the system, i dont see any harm in knowing the status of my submission and approval.

motsa · May 26, 2005

But that doesn't change the fact that we don't give status updates any more.

hutcheson · May 26, 2005

Ah, it's not about what you have managed to overlook the harm in. It's (a) what some curious spammer sees good in. And (b) what editors find useful for their work.

This falls in category (a) but not category (b).

Ultraseeker · May 26, 2005

Use Google Alerts

spectregunner said:
You can periodically browse the likely categories to see if it appears.
You can check your logs to see if you are getting traffic from DMZrg
You can use Google or Yahoo or any number of other search engines to do a restricted search only on our contents.

I use Google Alerts to notify me of any changes for certain terms like my domain name or business tag line. It's very effective. And free.
Given that we don't get any feedback from DMOZ editors, that's probably one of the best ways to get quick news of how your site is doing on the web anyway -- including DMOZ which is spidered by Google (over 5 million pages indexed!). Should prevent you from wasting time checking things manually.
http://www.google.com/alerts/

Cheers,
--j

Alucard · May 26, 2005

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Great idea, Ultraseeker!
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Ultraseeker · May 29, 2005

using google alerts to find out if your site is listed in dmoz

To add to my previous post, I'd like to throw something extra:
You can use Google Alerts with advanced search queries. So if you want to be notified by email when your site is listed, you can specify something like:
"senior cat" site:dmoz.org if your site has the words "senior cat" in its title.
But you might want to also use some of the unique terms that belong to your site as well...
I've been using Google Alerts for over a month now and it's been great!
You can specify if you want the alerts of changes to come into your mailbox daily, as they happen, or once a week.

Cheers.
--J

Albert · May 31, 2005

Patience is a virtue!

I too have submitted a site. I'm not at all bothered if, and when, some
editor takes a look at it as in the meantime I am submitting to search
engines myself etc etc.
To proove I'm not trying to ingraciate myself with any editorsI shall not
give the URL of my site.....So all you impatient Web Masters, have some patience and get on with your life whilst you wait!
Regards
Albert.

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