croix Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 I have one site that I have been trying to get into the DMOZ for almost 2 1/2 years now with no luck. Its a rather large site (60+ pages), with tons on unique information on a subject that no one else in the category has even begun to touch on. Its a non commercial site - the only thing available for sale on the the site are logo T shirts. Not to mention, no new sites have been added or removed to said category for the entire 2 1/2 years I have been waiting for a listing. I submitted every 6 months at first, but I don't bother anymore. My guess is that there is no one editing the category anymore, or that the editor is someone biased against the site. No response to me offering to become an editor either.
olaf2 Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 This is OK what you're saying... I like to know people using my open source work and of course to hear that they like it. You say there is no one complaining about the long waiting time, I am! My own site (top listed in Google) is first time submitted more then two years ago. but that's not the point, I remember the time some years before, at this time everyone has the opinion that getting listed at DMOZ is very important. This is changed now, it looks to me that DMOZ is not anymore (really) important for SEO's and web developers (like me). There is no more priority about getting listed at DMOZ... Olaf
olaf2 Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 I have one site that I have been trying to get into the DMOZ for almost 2 1/2 years now with no luck. Its a rather large site (60+ pages), with tons on unique information on a subject that no one else in the category has even begun to touch on. Its a non commercial site - the only thing available for sale on the the site are logo T shirts. Not to mention, no new sites have been added or removed to said category for the entire 2 1/2 years I have been waiting for a listing. I submitted every 6 months at first, but I don't bother anymore. My guess is that there is no one editing the category anymore, or that the editor is someone biased against the site. No response to me offering to become an editor either. Like someone told before some sites do not fit into a category: I have a site partly in dutch langauge and the rest in english language all pages are about php and webdevelopment. It looks like that its not possible to find the good category... By the way resubmitting is like pushong the reset DMOZ button, after the submission you are having day zero again...
Meta pvgool Posted June 16, 2006 Meta Posted June 16, 2006 This is changed now, it looks to me that DMOZ is not anymore (really) important for SEO's and web developers (like me). There is no more priority about getting listed at DMOZ... It seems SEO's and webdevelopers are finaly starting to understand what DMOZ editors have been telling them for years. I will not answer PM or emails send to me. If you have anything to ask please use the forum.
olaf2 Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 It seems SEO's and webdevelopers are finaly starting to understand what DMOZ editors have been telling them for years. Do you think there is another motivation by website owners to get listed at DMOZ then higher listings in search engines?
Meta hutcheson Posted June 16, 2006 Meta Posted June 16, 2006 >You say there is no one complaining about the long waiting time, I am! Ah, but in this respect you're NOT one of our users. You're a would-be-supplier, of a product (website) we haven't (yet) seen a pressing need for. >Do you think there is another motivation by website owners to get listed at DMOZ then higher listings in search engines? This is not the place to judge motivation. A selfish person may well report bad listings to skewer the competition, and -- we thank him kindly! A well-meaning but gorm-challenged person may spam away, and we wish he'd go away instead. So long as people help us find listable sites, their motivations remain their own.
Meta pvgool Posted June 16, 2006 Meta Posted June 16, 2006 Do you think there is another motivation by website owners to get listed at DMOZ then higher listings in search engines? I don't know. And to be honest I don't care. From a DMOZ point of view the whole hype about PR and SERP position is totaly not relevant. I will not answer PM or emails send to me. If you have anything to ask please use the forum.
olaf2 Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 I know that there are a lot of spammers, but don't forget that you need all these serious webmasters otherwise you have to look by yourself for new websites. I'm not a spammer and I'm helping the internet community every day but I can't say that I have any positive experience with DMOZ, sorry...
Meta hutcheson Posted June 16, 2006 Meta Posted June 16, 2006 >you need all these serious webmasters otherwise you have to look by yourself for new websites. We don't have to be forced to look for ourselves. We do it for fun anyway. >I can't say that I have any positive experience with DMOZ, sorry... That's OK. You aren't looking for anything we provide. No apologies necessary. There are other websites.
olaf2 Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 We don't have to be forced to look for ourselves. We do it for fun anyway. I know... That's OK. You aren't looking for anything we provide. No apologies necessary. There are other websites. yes the Internet is huge ... blink
Meta pvgool Posted June 16, 2006 Meta Posted June 16, 2006 My estimation is that from all the sites I have listed (over 15.000) only half were suggested. The other 50% I have found myself using other sources. but I can't say that I have any positive experience with DMOZ Do you mean as a user (someone searching for information). If that is the case I am sorry to hear. If you let us know the problems you encountered we will look into them. If you mean as a webmaster that is no problem at all. DMOZ does not deliver any services to webmasters. How can you have a positive or negative experience with things DMOZ does not provide. BTW noone has said you are a spammer. I will not answer PM or emails send to me. If you have anything to ask please use the forum.
olaf2 Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 My estimation is that from all the sites I have listed (over 15.000) only half were suggested. The other 50% I have found myself using other sources. that's a lot of work... Do you mean as a user (someone searching for information). If that is the case I am sorry to hear. If you let us know the problems you encountered we will look into them. If you mean as a webmaster that is no problem at all. DMOZ does not deliver any services to webmasters. How can you have a positive or negative experience with things DMOZ does not provide. both, as user because it takes to much time: often timeouts, never found what I'm looking for, search engines are much faster... as a webmaster, re-check my old postings, I know I did also things against the guidelines (maybe there are too much rules)
Sachti Posted June 16, 2006 Posted June 16, 2006 both, as user because it takes to much time: often timeouts, never found what I'm looking for, search engines are much faster... In my opinion directories and search engines have 2 totally different purposes. For searching one single information I would always use search engines. If I would like to have an overview over websites about a certain issue I would use the odp, even when it takes some time to get to the right category.
billybw Posted September 11, 2006 Author Posted September 11, 2006 I was the original starter of this thread -- I was trying to determine why no new sites had been added to the category I submitted to for at least four months. It seemed that either all submissions to that category had been rejected, or the review process was very slow. Anyway, I recently discovered that my site has now been added, apparently some time within the last month. That means that the total wait was about six months, not unreasonable since you're probably inundated with submissions. So I want to thank all the editors for the hard work you are doing. Thank you, billybw
jimnoble Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Thank you for coming back and telling us the good news . Few do .
Meta shadow575 Posted September 11, 2006 Meta Posted September 11, 2006 What jim said. Thank you. Shadow *The opinions I offer are my own and may not represent the opinions of Curlie.org or other editors.* It can take anywhere from two hours to several years for a site review to take place. I do not respond to private messages requesting site status checks. _______________________________________________ https://shadow575.wordpress.com/
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