Submitted my site, but....

[srikondoji]

Hi volunteers,

I have submitted my site sometime back.

My site url is <URL Removed>

 

It is not yet listed, but how do i know, whichcategory i submitted my site to?

I forgot the category, i submitted my site to.

 

Can someone provide any information regarding this?

 

Also, how will i know, if my site is rejected?

If i know, it is rejected, i may make changes and re-submit my site.

 

Thanks again for wonderful volunteers.

[spectregunner]

We have no way of searching for the category to which an unlisted site is submitted.

 

Generally speaking, if a site is declined a listing it usually means that the site is fundamentally unlistable and resubmitting is an exercise in futility.

 

We do not do notifications of any type, so there is no way to know if your site is declined other than doing an honest self-evaluation of the site and how it compares with our guidelines.

[srikondoji]

If a site is declined and some type of notifications for changes is sent to the website owner, then we can make those changes and re-submit.Right?

[hutcheson]

Well, the chance of "some type of notification" being sent to the website owner is pretty close to nil, so there's no point in speculating what would happen then.

 

What happens more often is: a site is suggested, then significant additional unique content is added. At this point the webmaster may well wonder whether the original site was too void to be listed, and whether a new review would prove different.

 

In such a case, then it is (in my opinion) not unreasonable to suggest again, ONCE, at least six months after the last suggestion, at least three months after the addition of content -- and with a bracketed note in the suggested description: something like [added the following content since last suggestion: bla bla bla...]

 

This is also a pretty rare occurrence, by the way, so far as I can tell.

 

Caveat: this is ESPECIALLY not the official ODP line. I'm just speaking as one editor, saying what I as one editor wouldn't consider a peremptory or importunate imposition.

 

The approach I describe would make sure that EITHER you didn't submit again right after the new content was reviewed, OR the new content wouldn't have made any difference anyway.

 

This approach would keep people from doing the incessant resubmittals that class them with the spamming jerks.

 

This approach would make sure that an editor had the information up front, to decide whether there's a possibility of the new unique content making a difference.

 

And then after that it's in the editor's hands. Nothing keeps us from re-reviewing a site even if nobody re-suggests us. So even if by some mischance or malignance both suggestions get deleted (a VERY unlikely case), we might well still find the site by some other means (remember that outside suggestions are a very small adjunct to editors' real core of activity.)

 

And, just one more time -- this is a personal, maybe even an idiosyncratic opinion. Some other editor may look at it a different way...feel free to disagree, guys!

[srikondoji]

Dmoz is like a black box and understanding it is something of an achievement.

The more i ask, the more i get answers and the more i understand.

 

This is a never ending process and iam loving it.

 

Learned few things while submitting to Zeal, and learning a lot discussing with DMOZ volunteers.

 

I am hoping that this knowledge gained here, will be of some use at some point in time for my projects.

 

Thanks for your work and answers.

 

Just a Humour.

Submitting to DMOZ and waiting for inclusion can make a person patient, much better than Meditation.

 

Thanks

[hutcheson]

It's only a black box if you're trying to manipulate it -- that is, to get someone else to do something. In that case it's reactively not only opaque but viscous: there really isn't any mechanism set up for that, which is considered a Good Thing.

 

If you're trying to help, it's open ... sometimes still viscous. But when you're actually doing the work, it's wonderfully transparent and unrestrictive.

 

Actually, when you think about it, those two attributes are just two different ways of looking at the same basic design: freedom for workers (editors) is the inability for anyone, even other editors, to constrain them.

[Pullak]

Site never appearing in dmoz

 

Hi Guys,

I have submitted couple of sites <url removed> and <url removed> beginning of last year and they were submitted to the right categories, still they are not appearing in dmoz. Sites have already appeared in google long back. Where is the problem?

 

Thanks,

Pullak

[motsa]

We no longer give site suggestion status checks.

[hutcheson]

Since no site is guaranteed a listing, there is no indication of a problem in the circumstances you describe.