Dmoz

[Traume]

My grandmother's slow-cooked roast will be done and ate before anyone gets listed in DMOZ.

Maybe they should farm out the task of sorting new entries to India.

I've been waiting 6 months to get to listed.

[ColoradoHomeHelper]

I would re-apply if you have been waiting 6 months. I waited about 4 or 5 months and didn't hear anything. I re-applied about month 6 and got listed about a month or two after that.

re apply!

[mayorm]

I would definitely reapply and wait.. but do check who the editor is... contacting them might help you..

[John!]

From my experience and from reading what others have to say, 6 months is about average wait time, so be patient! Very much easier said than done, i know.

[Johnyfar]

It's unreal. 6 months wait time! I have already applied twice in the last year and still have not been included in the directory.

[goreseo]

Hire a indian SEO company they will have it approved much faster, by posting it on internal forums and requesting the category editor to review it.

[the-ref]

Wow, you guys only had to wait 6 months before getting any responses from DMOZ's end? I've heard of people who have waited over a year before hearing back from DMOZ. Then again, who knows if these people ever tried reapplying. Still though, I have read a lot in the past of people waiting a lot longer than 6 months to hear from DMOZ.

I really like the idea of outsourcing it to India. The only problem with that though is outsourcing will probably lead to more artificial DMOZ injection. I can see it now... virtually every SEO company in India advertising that they can get your site in DMOZ in under 24 hours, lol. Even though DMOZ is getting more and more saturated with managers who are only in it for personal reasons, there are still many who pride their managed directories on DMOZ and want to provide the best quality links possible...

[DBQ]

Getting listed in DMOZ is great and everything, but it's not worth putting so much effort into. Just apply and reapply once every 6 months, if you get in great, if not try a quick letter to the editor to ask what you can change to be reconsidered for inclusion.

DMOZ won't make or break the bank for you, diversify your efforts.

[RobM]

DMOZ is kindof a pain to get into...kinda how yahoo was years ago

[Indochine]

I have some good news:

Google gives less and less importance to Dmoz.
Why? Because it's becoming an unreliable source.
From the efficiency point of view, we are listed in Dmoz and almost never get any visits from them.

Therefore, my advice is forget them and try Wikidweb or other local directories.

[HardMoneyDr]

I have some good news:

Google gives less and less importance to Dmoz.
Why? Because it's becoming an unreliable source.
From the efficiency point of view, we are listed in Dmoz and almost never get any visits from them.

Therefore, my advice is forget them and try Wikidweb or other local directories.

I have also heard that that it does not hold the importance with Google that it once had. I believe your better served paying the money for Yahoo in you want to be listed in a marque directory.

[Indochine]

Well, I would say that the best and the most efficient method to get traffic from a directory is to make some simple Google search on the subject of your website, say : "real estate in pensylvania", "pensylvania properties", etc. and see which directories rank best.
You can then subscribe to those directories.

It is also better to get a top position in a new site with high potential to grow, rather than a lower position in Dmoz, Yahoo or other incumbent directories.

Here is an example:

By the time we launched ImoMarket.com, our portal was targeted on the Romanian real estate market.
We discovered that Federal.ro (http://www.federal.ro) was one of the best quality romanian directories, still quite unknown but very likely to grow fast. We paid something like 30€/year and we got included in the first place of "real estate (http://www.federal.ro/imobiliare/)" and "tourism (http://www.federal.ro/turism-transporturi/)" categories.
Ever since, it has been worth all the money and nowdays, they became not only our best refferer but also the most visited romanian directory.

[Greg]

I have submitted every year for the last 4 years and I am still not included. No editors in any category close to mine so I volunteered to be an editor and received no reply.

I have over 600 pages of unique content which is more than most of the sites in my category combined.