QUICK DMOZ TIPS... #1

You don't have to stop when your homepage is listed at DMOZ. If you have other pages optimized for certain keywords, find a category at DMOZ where that page fits well and submit it. DMOZ editors say they prefer to add only homepages, but will add inside pages if they're good & on-topic. The more pages you have listed at DMOZ, the more customers will find your site on all the search engines that use DMOZ data.

QUICK DMOZ TIPS... #2

Meta tags matter at DMOZ.
Bet you didn't know that.

DMOZ editors (sometimes) look at them and if you write a good, accurate (keyword rich) description then there's a real chance that it will be used as is. That same keyword rich description shows up on many of the search engines and directories that use DMOZ data.

Don't just load the description with keywords though. Even if the site is accepted, the DMOZ editor will change it to an accurate description - without regard for the keywords you're trying to target.

Oh dear oh dear. I do hope potential submitters will take the trouble to read the ODP submission guidelines (http://dmoz.org/add.html), from which the following extracts are taken, before following any of that advice.
Identify the single best category for your site.We don't want deeplinks submitted and doing so to excess can be counter-productive.
Descriptions of sites should describe the content of the site concisely and accurately. They should not be promotional in nature. Submitting a promotional description rather than an objective, well written description may significantly delay your site from being listed or prevent your site from being listed at all.At one time, if the submitter didn't bother to give a title or description, the system would use the metatags content as a starting suggestion to the editor. This is no longer true and the system will insist upon those fields being completed sensibly. The submitter should give the actual title of the website, not a promotional phrase, and a description as defined above.

meta editor jimnoble

I m trying to submit one of my website name

http://www.imakesite.com

to the category

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Free/

help me out to add it, i m trying it from last 15 days

Ric - it normally takes much longer than 15 days for a submission to be reviewed and added/rejected.

If yours was rejected already within that time frame 1) you were lucky it was reviewed so quickly and 2) you need to read the guidelines.

I don't work for DMOZ (they are all volunteers of course) but I have worked on directories. I've processed 100s of submissions.

So my advice is: read the submission rules, write your submission for the correct category, stop, think about it from an objective, editorial point of view, remove any hype, repetition or inaccuracy, then check your grammar, and submit.

Then wait - a month, minimum.

>>I m trying to submit one of my website

It is *very* important to check the description of the category out carefully, as well as other categories that may be suited, and make sure to choose the right one. In addition - check out the listings in those categories to see if yours offers the same product or service they do.

If a site is submitted to the wrong category it's liable to be denied.

If a site is submitted to the wrong category it's liable to be denied.That isn't supposed to happen. If it's listable, the reviewing editor should send it on to the correct category - or at least the right general area. It will then await further review in the destination category.

The downside of suggesting a website to the wrong category is that, having to be processed by two or more editors instead of just the one, it will take longer to be listed.

The downside of suggesting a website to the wrong category is that, having to be processed by two or more editors instead of just the one, it will take longer to be listed.
-and that since those editors are human who make errors
-and most sites are never listed

there is no reason to make your site be seen by more editors than necissary

A thread with a seriously flawed start, hopefully those planning on submitting to DMOZ will ignore the first post and read the rest.

Multiple submissions of pages within a site is called SPAM and can lead to the entire site being removed.

I've done over 15,000 edits, I've yet to look at a metatag.

Keyword rich descriptions stand out as such and lead to the entire description being rewritten from scratch.

Choose the prime thing that's important about your site, and write a short boring description about it, do not make it keyword rich, and it stands a chance of being accepted.

Hi all,

I usualy wait 6 motnhs per site before I try to resubmit one, but with a little success. Only few of the sites are in.

And I wouldn`t try to submit a different page than the home page. Am I right?

Yes - the content of the opening post was flawed.

I don't know if this is allowed in the forum, so please remove this post if it isn't, but....

Here's an article (http://www.webworkshop.net/dmoz.html) about submitting to DMOZ, and why it is often the submitter who causes much of the delay in getting a site reviewed in DMOZ.

It's fine Phil, it's a useful article and has benefit for members.

As I mentioned earlier, there are not many active editors when compared to the number shown on DMOZ's front page, but most of those that are active are keen. They are keen to add websites that have unique content, and keen to improve the directory; in fact, they remind me of a colony of ants busying themselves in and around their anthill (the directory), building it up, each tiny bit by each tiny bit. Contrary to what some people think, they do care about the directory and about adding new sites, but they have an uphill struggle because there aren't enough of them.
As for PR benfit, I believe there are other benefits that are more important, but this isn't the right thread to discuss that. I like the anthill analogy, particularly since worker ants are known to carry multiple times their own weight.

I like the anthill analogy, particularly since worker ants are known to carry multiple times their own weight.
hehe... that's the way they always struck me when I was an editor for while.