Why my site is not listing on DMOZ ?

I have submited my site long time ago on DMOZ on this link http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Nepal/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Services/Tour_Operators/

But It is not placing the list until now. what kind of site usually DMOZ make listing ? I m just waiting my site listed.

Can you please clarify why my site is not listing ?

Thanks

Most probably because no editor has reviewed it yet.
For longer answers see our FAQ.

Where whould I post the site on ODP or on DMOZ itself ?

I have been posting my site time by time some time after one month some time after 2 month from both ODP and DMOZ itself to be listed sooner.

Actually where should I post ? On DMOZ or OPD ? I have just posted the site once again before 20 days from OPD, will it be reviewed ? This is my site removed

It would be more confertable if you kindly reply this.

thanks

DMOZ and ODP are the same thing.

By suggesting your website, you've already done all you can do. Posting here will not expedite its processing. Just be patient. A volunteer will look at in time but we can't predict when that will be or what his decision will be.

Repeatedly suggesting your website can be counter-productive. Please stop it lest we mistake you for a spammer.

From my observations, it takes more than just patience. Just post your site and forget about ODP. Depending on your topic and you're luck, it may be added within a few years or so. Seeing all of the people on this forum with this same issue (myself included), that appears to be the case.

ODP would probably get more editor activity and have more sites in its listing if it offered some kind of incentive program to its editors. I'm not saying they need to pay their editors, but relying solely on volunteers to do your work is a quick and easy way to get very little done.

It all depends on what you call "very little". DMOZ is still the biggest and also the fasted growing directory. To me it seems that the volunteers of DMOZ are doing a much better job than many of the directories with payed editors.

Ofcourse if you look from what webmaster are interested in (getting their own webiste listed) it may seem that we don't perform. But DMOZ is not interested in the needs of indivual webmasters (you might have read that we are not a listing service).

lol, oh it's not all that bad, Tanoro, I just listed 3 sites that had never been suggested to the Directory.

The problem with most of the posters in this forum is that you expect instant gratification, and you're all still convinced we're here to serve you as a listing service, which we are not.

The ODP is a Directory, you do not have a right to be in it, and we do not list all sites, .

Editors are just normal everyday people who are willing to give their free time to building something useful for all web surfers to use, sort of like building a community library, one book at a time, and sorting them out in a way that makes sense to us.

It might not be as fast as you'd like it to be, but, we are very dedicated, honest people doing a very thankless job, and the only incentive we have is the satisfaction of doing the best job we can. We need no other incentive than selfless giving, unlike most of the posters here who are looking for something for themselves.

We're not here to do favors, we're here to answer the questions we're allowed to answer, give you the opportunity to interact with a live editor, and try to give you a better understanding of the Directory. That's my personal opinion.

If you'd like to help, you could devote some of your free time by either becoming an editor for the benefit of others, not yourselves, or you could point out dead sites, bad descriptions, or other things that might improve categories (besides listing your own site, of course, ).

Need help on this as well

Well, it sounds like I'm not the only one that is having this problem, but I submitted a listing probably 6 months to a year ago with no results. I realize that you guys don't volunteer for the benefit of webmasters, and I appreciate the fact that there is a rigorous process for being listed (otherwise, I wouldn't care to be listed here.)

Anyways, I really would just like some feedback on my submission (i.e. was something wrong with it, did it look spammy, etc.) I am running a legitimate business, but am new to this whole directory submission thing...so I just would like to know that I didnt do something wrong so that I can submit a valid request.

Thanks for your help.

Make sure the website clearly describes the legitimate business, and its unique goods and services. That is, authoritatively and comprehensively answer the question: who are you and what would you do for money?

On the website, that is. The site suggestion is just to help some editor who wants to be looking at that kind of site, to find the site when he wants to find it.

If the WEBSITE is clear and informative, there's not much you can do wrong with the SUGGESTION that the editors can't or won't fix.

It's also very helpful to have the address of the business on the site.

I would say the website is very clear and informative.

Here is the url...do you see anything that would prevent it from being listed?
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We don't do site reviews, and posting links sites is against the TOS.

I also had same problem

I also had same problem. I think backlog is main problem in OPD now bbz its free and Worlds most powerful directory in world.

No editor for the catagory

I am also having same problem.
Hope, soon the Become an Editor will be available.
Which will help us by someone to edit the catagory.

> I also had same problem.
I don't know what your problem exactly is.
But if you mean something like "my site is not listed yet" you are in big problems. Why. Because DMOZ does not provide a service to webmasters at all. You can only suggest a site. DMOZ editors can (not must) use the pool of suggested sites to build the directory. Depending on editor interest there may be a few days between a site is suggested and it being reviewed. But it also may be several years.

> I think backlog is main problem in OPD now
Backlog is not a problem at all. DMOZ does not have a backlog. Having a backlog would mean that we would review suggested sites within a certain timeframe and in a certain order. Neither of them is done by DMOZ.
The main problem of DMOZ is the same problem as honest webmasters have. The enormous load of spam send to us. From some calculations a few editors have come to the conclusion that some 80 to 90% of all suggested sites is not listable and as such should be qulaified as spam.

some kind of incentive program to its editors

Click to expand...

We already have one of the best incentive programs around. It consists of several elements:

• The personal satisfaction we receive for "giving something back" without gain to the worldwide internet community.
• A volunteer environment where we can contribute as little or as much as we choose without being nagged by some pinhead who had the word "manager" appended to their name.
• The freedom to undertake any task for which we are qualified, based upon our interests at any given moment -- not becauase someone else wants us to do it.
• Absolute, total, freedom from economic pressure.
• No advertisers to satisfy or worry about offending.
• No layoffs

Excellently put. I wish I'd said all that .

Amen to that! The (near) perfect definition of "volunteer."

Some of these busineses are run from home and people would be silly to put there private address in the sourde code or even on the site itself the address of the business should not have any effect on the site at all.

I see you're based in London. If you have a business website, I'm sure you've made certain that it complies with current UK legislation. If you aren't familiar with it, here's an excellent plain English summary. I recommend that you study it.

We aren't the internet police here, but the lack of any locality information on a website makes a locality listing problematical.