DMOZ directory not being updated
Feb. 16th 2004 was a very big day - my first dmoz complaint:
When I first submitted ESL go.com to DMOZ, I submitted it as a student resource. I’ve added over 250 pages since then including a good number of teacher resources. For the past few months I’ve been submitting changes to DMOZ; I want to be in the “English as a second language” category rather than the “student resources” sub category.The main reason I care is that this might boost my link popularity; the sub category pages have lower page ranks. The other thing is that I want my sight to be listed appropriately. It’s no longer strictly a student resource. However, DMOZ has been ignoring me for a while now.
Anyway, get your category right the first time when you submit to DMOZ (and I suppose this holds true for the Yahoo! directory as well) because you may never get a second chance.
What can I say about the last 4.5 years? Dmoz still sucks horribly. Submit your sites anyway, but don’t expect much.
I even offered to help edit the ESL section since obviously the editors there are falling behind. They turned down my application because it was too big a category for a new editor. I may not know much, but I do know that you are f*cking up if you ask people to volunteer and then you tell the volunteers you are not accepting applications for the position. I have no problem if they want you to apply to a smaller category first as long as they tell you. Idiots.
Tags: complaint, directories, dmoz, idiots
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
That’s normal for DMOZ. They had a support forum on which you could ask your submission’s status. So I asked one year after I submitted a site, they told me to come back in 6 months, they won’t check until you waited 6 months after the first inquiry (not submission). 6 months later, they told me my site hadn’t been reviewed and come back in another 6 months. So, in another 6 months, I asked again, I was told the site still hadn’t been reviewed, they don’t know why and they can’t help.
Completely waste of time, they seem to have stopped the status inquiry.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I tried submitting to dmoz.org several times without any success in the past. Everything I do always seem to fail when attempting to submit my website to this directory. So I have completely lost hope in trying to get any website included there. Either their staff is lacking in personnel, or they don’t have enough staff members with enough experience, or both.