et's start it simple:
www.dmoz.org A short definition of the Open
Directory Project (DMOZ) is: "the
Now, if I am lucky, you either most important directory on the
didn't click the link or you did Web". If you add "human edited"
but you came back here to read my to the short definition, you've
article. Either way, you want to got it all. However, this "human
know why is the Open Directory edited" tag doesn't say it all.
Project so important for your The "humans" are volunteers.
website and Google. Volunteering means you don't get
paid for what you do, you do it
According to Wikipedia"®, "The for free. On occasion, these
Open Directory Project (ODP), volunteers don't have the time to
also known as dmoz (from do their job, or just don't want
directory.mozilla.org, its to. That means your good
original domain name), is a submission may never make it into
multilingual open content the directory or may get listed,
directory of World Wide Web links but only after a long waiting
owned by Netscape that is period.
constructed and maintained by a
community of volunteer editors. Assuming that the volunteers do
ODP data powers the core perform their duties in time and
directory services for many of correctly, there's nothing else
the Web's largest search engines against DMOZ. On the contrary:
and portals, including Netscape Google considers sites listed in
Search, AOL Search, Google, and the DMOZ important for the very
Alexa." reason that the directory is
human edited. To get into the
The Most Important Directory on Google directory you need to be
the Web listed in the DMOZ. Other search
engines, smaller than Google use six months. It is not recommended
DMOZ listings as well for their to resubmit your website before
directories. the six months time limit (better
make it seven), or you might have
How to Get Listed your website moved back to the
end of the line, or rejected as
DMOZ has some very strict spam. You may never really know
inclusion rules. Fail to follow what happened to your website,
them and you'll never see your unless you are lucky and get an
site listed. Submit your site two answer from the DMOZ public
or three times to the same forum. Take care: the tone makes
category, other pages than the the music. So be polite.
home page, and you'll get no
results either. The editors don't If you are tempted to submit your
tolerate spam, in any form. website to a second category,
think twice. Unless your website
You can submit to the Open contains enough useful
Project Directory all kinds of information related to the second
valuable websites, including category, don't submit it. You
blogs. If you have good content, wouldn't like to have it rejected
non-offensive, to the point, etc, for spamming the directory, would
you will get your site listed. you?
There can be one major problem You might, however, try to submit
after you submit your website: your website to the DMOZ regional
the waiting period. As the busy listings - but you should provide
human editors do not notify you enough relevant content for the
whether your submission was people living in the region: your
accepted or not, all you can do local visitors.
is wait, and this can take up to
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