When my website willbe accepted to DMOZ

I have learned my lesson well!!!
Submitting and been accepted by DMOZ directory is the most important step in developing any e-commerce business. I am willing to follow any guidelines and instructions associated with submission procedure in order to be accepted. My future depends on DMOZ editor decision!
Applying above rules I submitted my website to DMOZ directory on January 17, 2007.
I really do not know what else I can do to expedite this process. If it is any way I can find out if my site was rejected and why or maybe is still waiting for editor to look at it I would greatly appreciate it.

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Date Of submission: January 17, 2007.

I have learned my lesson well!!!

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I don't think so.

As is already posted prominently in this forum, we will not discuss the status of an individual website.

My future depends on DMOZ editor decision!

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If your future really depends upon the uncontrollable actions and time scales of an unknown volunteer editor, you might like to consider a career change .

> I have learned my lesson well!!!
> Submitting and been accepted by DMOZ directory is the most important step in developing any e-commerce business.
I don't know who thought you these lessen but you should aks your money back as this is totaly wrong.

> I am willing to follow any guidelines and instructions associated with submission procedure in order to be accepted.
Always a good thing to do. On ODP and on any other website.

> My future depends on DMOZ editor decision!
It certainly does not. Your future depends solely on you and your activities.
If you realy think your future depends on DMOZ you better start wondering about other things to do as the future of your website will be very short and unsucesfull.


> Applying above rules I submitted my website to DMOZ directory on January 17, 2007.
Good. An editor will look at the suggestion. We just can't predict when this will happen. Could be tomorrow, or next week, or next month, could also be after several years.

> I really do not know what else I can do to expedite this process.
Nothing at all.

> If it is any way I can find out if my site was rejected and why or maybe is still waiting for editor to look at it I would greatly appreciate it.
No you can't. See our FAQ and aanouncements about answering status requests.

Well, there are some other lessons:

(1) Volunteers don't appreciate being told you've designed a business around trying to sell the results of their freely given work.

(2) If every greedy webmaster (and there are tens of thousands of them, and nearly all of them are spammers) tried to "expedite" the volunteers in his own direction, the resulting tug of war would tear the volunteers to bits, and end up getting nothing done. "Expedition" is by removing barriers and artificial priorities, and letting the volunteers work at the way which seems to them most productive.

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> Submitting and been accepted by DMOZ directory is the most
> important step in developing any e-commerce business

Are you using an 'SEO guidelines' document or SEO software? Many are out
of date, and therefore still suggest this. Perhaps it used to be truer a few
years ago, but not now.

At the moment DMOZ is no more than a very interesting project. It currently
carries very little weight in terms of SERP and page rank. For instance, a
private school very similar to ours and in the same location is listed in DMOZ
and ours isn't. But I have never seen the other school listed in any search
engine results, whilst our is always on the first page, solely because I
planned and designed the site properly.

In terms of search engine results, there are things of far more significance
that you should do to the design and content of your site. For instance (in
loose order of importance):

- amount of backlinks
The amount of backlinks and whether the hyperlink text contains the search
phrase is more significant than the page rank of the back-linking sites.
Although, the significance of backlinks is on the verge of collapse because
'nofollow' will inevitably soon become standard (that's my opinion anyway).

- search phrase in page title, meta description, & url (preferably the domain).

- search phrase within content (and in context).

- search phrase in the first line of text that the bot reads.

- search phrase in img 'alt' tags.

- search phrase in keywords meta tag (for yahoo only).
If you use this, ensure keywords are in the content too.

- W3C compliance (or at least, nothing which confuses the bots).

All these factors carry far more weight than being listed in any directory.

If you really want to ensure you are listed consistently at the top of
search results, and your business depends on it, you must pay the major
search engines; there is no other guarantee.

Thanks for your comments Antifreeze but the thread has now drifted well outside the scope of this forum. Closing.