Alright....I have seen and heard enough about people trying their hardest to get included in DMOZ. Some people spend a lot of time worrying about their submissions and waiting to see if they are going to get in. I want to tell everyone that they could be doing better things with their time.

Now don't get me wrong when I say that you shouldnt waste your time with DMOZ. It is a good directory and can help you in the long run. If you own a website or work for one, you only need to submit your site once. After you do that, sit back and wait to see if you will get included. If you are not aware of the time it takes to get indexed, then please let me make you aware! It can take up to one year to get included in their index. Not everyone that submits will get included in the first place.

There have been rumors that some DMOZ editors do not even look at some of the submission that they receive. This means that your website could be one that just gets thrown out without any consideration. Does this seem fair to you?? I know it makes me mad and I lose the respect I once had for DMOZ. I came across a forum posting that had a DMOZ editor say that some of them pick and choose the sites that they want to review. Now, when you look at their policy, it states that the editor "will" review your site. Nowhere does it say "maybe" or "possibly".

Now that I have shown some of you that you might not even get considered in the directory, I will show you what you can do about it. Instead

of sitting there worrying about your submission, why don't you just go to other directories and submit there. There are so many directories out there that can give you the same exact result as DMOZ. If you start submitting to these directories, please only submit manually. Do NOT use automated software because they are frowned upon in the search engines and in the good directories. If you do submissions everyday, then by the time you get in DMOZ, if you do, you will have many quality links to your site and your Page Rank will be a lot better. If you don't want to wait for all these directories to include your site, then there are directories that you can pay for inclusion, like yahoo and business.com. But if I were you, then I would take the time to get my site in as many good directories as I could to maximize your linking campaign.

So all in all, please do submit to DMOZ, but don't wait there or worry about them not putting you in. You have at least 3 months to wait for something to happen, if they even review your site, so make something of your time and get your linking campaign going with quality directories. There are many list out there on the web that will give you some good starts and you can take it from there. DMOZ is losing its credibility as a good directory because of the statements of some of their editors, so don't worry about them and be proactive in your link popularity campaigns!

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