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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Need Help with DMOZ?

If you recently submitted to The ODP Directory, aka DMOZ, chances are you have not heard back from them or your submission was rejected. A thread over at WebmasterWorld was started by an Internet Marketing newbie looking for tips to get listed in DMOZ.

The respondents offered a mixed bag of advice - but the gist of it is pretty much what I gathered from my own experience with submitting to the Open Directory Project:
  1. Make it as easy as possible for the DMOZ editors to review your site. Carefully follow the submission guidelines.
  2. Submit a site only once
  3. After you submit, forget about DMOZ and move on to other directories. Do Not continually submit the same site if you do not hear back from the editors. It is clearly stated that this will not help your cause.
  4. If your site is rejected from DMOZ try to find out why and fix it; then re-submit.
In my opinion, the above is good advice when submitting to any human reviewed directory.

posted by boywundah at 4:29 PM   2 comments

2 Comments:

At September 16, 2005 11:48 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

funny you should mention dmoz - site pro news today ran an article questioning the future of dmoz.

an old story for sure - people have been proclaiming the death of dmoz for years. according to the article, they still have 3000+ "active" editors, and approximately 10,000 editors that can edit.

 
At September 19, 2005 6:19 PM, Blogger boywundah said...

Yea - interesting to note that thier homepage currently boasts 69,719 editors.

If the article is true then this would reflect the total number of volunteer editors that have signed up or contributed since the beginning of the project. Seems odd to count editors who are no longer active but it does make them appear bigger and the project more active...smart

 

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