Comments on: Getting Into DMoz – An Insight from a DMoz Editor

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Best SEO Directories - My Top 7 Link Directory Sources! — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:19:48 +0000

[...] – Although it is near impossible to get your site listed at Dmoz these days, its still worth submitting to as this directory is free and is owned by Google. One of [...]

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:50:08 +0000

Hi Nigel, I would try re-submitting with a note to the editor so that he/she knows what’s going on!

By: Nigel Spelman

Nigel Spelman — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:13:01 +0000

Very interesting but it leaves me quite unsure what to do. I have a website called ‘generic-term’.co.uk but my email is [at]‘company-name’.co.uk.
Two years ago an SEO company, who I have long since dismissed, submitted my site to DMOZ – to the completely wrong category and with a poor description. Trying to rectify the situation I have since re-submitted a couple of times to a relevant category but I didn’t know about my email address having to match the website URL.
So what do I do now: re-submit again or wait patiently with the expectation that my non-compliant submissions have long since been purged from the queue?
There must be loads of re-submissions by people who fear they are waiting in vain! Any thoughts or advice?

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:48 +0000

I have been trying to get a DMOZ listing (also applied as an editor) for a while now… Will try to submit it again after removing a couple of my referral links (they hate them, I hear)…

Thanks for the wonderful post.

Cheers,
Ajith

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:36:49 +0000

Hi Chronic,
I’m not sure what you’re clarifying, or from what experience – but I’ve been emailed personally by a couple of editors and asked to put a phone number and address on the site so that they could accept it.

As for Dmoz not listing commercial sites.. I don’t know when the last time you browsed through it was but it clearly wasn’t recently!

By: ChronicSEO

ChronicSEO — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:27:19 +0000

Just wanted to clarify something…

You said “First and foremost, do you have an address and telephone number that is easy to find, you need both those to be accepted (fact).”

This is simply not true. 90% of the sites listed in DMOZ do not have a phone number or address listed on their site. In fact, the only sites likely to have a phone number on their site are commercial sites which DMOZ doesn’t usually list.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:16 +0000

Nice article, thanks. Some years ago, things used to go faster when you tried to list a website at Dmoz but then, Yahoo and Altavista were THE search engine, oops, sorry, I mean directories to get into.
– Goowhat? Google? What’s that?

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5 Essential SEO Tools To Analyse Your Website | Stats & Reports — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:46:55 +0000

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By: Tony Gee

Tony Gee — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:40:17 +0000

Great post John – Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

By: NewssyLee

NewssyLee — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:05:07 +0000

Thanks to you

By: windharp

windharp — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:13:08 +0000

I am sure Eric appreciates this posting as much as you did his answer, showing that you actually read what he wrote. And felt it was important enough to include. Somehow I am sorry I wasn’t the one to answer you ;-)

By: John

John — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:39:00 +0000

From Eric’s comments I was clearly wrong about resubmitting! Point withdrawn!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:41:19 +0000

and if you submit too often (i submitted once per month) you get blacklisted. Really. Now my site’s still’s not been listed even though i’ve suggested it in the proper Singapore web design category. Even when I submit it once every six months, it is still not listed. sigh.

edited by eggrage: please don’t spam my blog, your name has been changed from promotional spam to ‘anonymous’