when can i resubmit my site in dmoz

I was Submit my site in dmoz before 3 months but it is still not listed in dmoz. so when can i resubmit it again or their is no necessaries to resubmit it.

Welcome to Resource Zone seoahmedabad!

Please see FAQ: How long should I wait before I resubmit? and FAQ: How long until my site will be reviewed? where your questions are answered.

Great answers: wait forever, and approval can take 2 minutes to 2 years.

I guess this means I only have one year and eight months to go. It dumbfounds me as to how the site can proudly display: 4,830,584 sites - 75,151 editors - over 590,000 categories, and yet take four months (and counting) to approve my site.

Windharp, we appreciate your help. Somehow I'm sure that the frustration is felt by many more people that may never join this forum, and that seoahmedabad's question is asked almost daily.

I guess this means I only have one year and eight months to go

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Well, 2 years isn´t a fixed date, it could well take even longer. We simply don´t guarantee a certain timeframe due to the nature of a volunteer project.

It´s amazing that people can be frustrated with something that isn´t offered. This isn´t a listing service.

informator said:

This isn´t a listing service.

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I disagree, and I think you are incorrect. AOL only lists sites from the DMOZ in their searches.

You´re free to disagree but ODP is still not a listing service.

AOL only lists sites from the DMOZ in their searches.

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That is a utterly false statement.

Yes, of course you are free to disagree, but it is rather futile to tell the people who work with a thing that they are either lying or else they don't know what they are doing. (When I worked as a library assistent in a children's library, many years ago when I was still in high school, parents would sometimes come in and leave their kids while they went out shopping, because they thought we provided free babysitting. Or rather, they didn't leave their child because the librarians usually caught them before they left and asked what they were doing; one or two actually told the librarian that he was wrong, we did do babysitting, so there. I felt as bewildered by that as I do by your disagreement with our unison assurance that we are not a listing service.)

Folks, there's no point in trying to plait fog .

So maybe I misunderstood something. You are saying that the ODP, which is a directory, just like the phone book, is not a listing service. It seems to me that by definition they are one in the same.

The difference is that the phone book people have an obligation to list all non-unlisted phone numbers (white pages) or all companies who pay to advertise (yellow pages). The ODP doesn't have a similiar obligation. Would we like to be able to list all listable sites really quickly? Sure. I don't think any editor would say differently. But we do what we can to effect a net growth in the directory, which means that new listings are added daily but any specific site may or may not be among those new listings at any given point. "Listing service" implies that we exist to perform a service of some kind to site owners, which is not what we do.

So then what is it that the ODP strives for? If you call something and open directory project, shouldn't that directory strive to be exactly that? By limiting what you put into the directory, it becomes merely a listing of editors choices.

For the record, some definitions:

list·ing (lstng)
n.
1. An entry in a list or directory: the first listing in the telephone book.

di·rec·to·ry (d-rkt-r, d-)
n. pl. di·rec·to·ries
1. A book containing an alphabetical or classified listing of names, addresses, and other data, such as telephone numbers, of specific persons, groups, or firms.

With that, I close my arguement. I am still very much convinced that a directory and listing are one in the same.

You´re welcome to interpret the meaning of Directory and Listings the way you want, and to be convinced that you are right. But there are other definitions.

In the area of Internet directories there are some which accept all listings automatically, those would be classified as Listing services. The main purpose of those are to provide backlinks to sites in order to make them more visible through Search Engines.

Others, like ODP, review sites according to their standards and doesn´t accept every site that is submitted, those could rather be called Directories.

In my mind there is a difference there.

The ODP strives to be the most comprehensive directory of the web, maybe we haven´t reached that goal, but we haven´t finished yet.

With that, I close my arguement. I am still very much convinced that a directory and listing are one in the same.

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By the definitions you posted, no, they aren't one and the same since one is a subset of the other. So, it would be fair to say they are related but not that they are the same thing.

No one here has ever said that the ODP isn't a directory. Nor has anyone ever said that the ODP doesn't contain listings. In that, no one is arguing with you. What we *are* saying, though, is that we are not a listing service, meaning that we do not exist to provide site owners with a service by listing their sites.

So then what is it that the ODP strives for? If you call something and open directory project, shouldn't that directory strive to be exactly that? By limiting what you put into the directory, it becomes merely a listing of editors choices.

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The "open" in Open Directory Project has never meant that we will list everything. It refers to the fact that our data is openly available for use by other sites. There wouldn't be a point in having human editors if our goal was to list every site that exists -- an automated process could do that much more efficiently. But we do what we can to contribute towards the net growth of the directory. Is the growth great enough to satisfy everyone who owns a listable site or has an interest in a particular topic? Probably not, for most topics. But it's still a net growth and it's still bigger and more comprehensive overall than any other directory, even if some individual topics are not.

Feel some what pacified

Thank you for this resource. It has been useful for clearing up the questions I had.

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The ODP strives to be the most comprehensive directory of the web, maybe we haven´t reached that goal, but we haven´t finished yet.

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You haven't not just reached it you're flipping miles off!

Thanks, you've made your point. Constructive criticism is always welcome in these forums, but general trolling is not.

Frustration in submitting websites

As an internet lawyer for many years I see many bias actions in the websites listed. Some of you guys down right have an attitude not all about doing an public service. I have ventured through a lot of your listings and a lot of good sites are there also spam does exist in this directory and websites that do not even exist anymore. I can tell you as a person who has submitted there websites with much good content and no spam only to see websites without content accepted as I can feel the frustration level of the people submitting.
I have come to know you dont need this directory for top search engine placement just have good content and good back links.

.. and on that note, it's time to close this thread .