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seo
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| Camron wrote: | | well i dont know cus i never used dmoz,.... so what is it/ lol |
The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
Founders
ODP was founded as Gnuhoo by Rich Skrenta and Bob Truel in 1998. At the time, Skrenta and Truel were working as engineers for Sun Microsystems. Chris Tolles, who worked at Sun Microsystems as the head of marketing for network security products, also signed on in 1998 as a co-founder of Gnuhoo along with co-founders Bryn Dole and Jeremy Wenokur. Skrenta was already well known for his role in developing TASS, an ancestor of tin, the popular threaded Usenet newsreader for Unix systems. Coincidentally, the original category structure of the Gnuhoo directory was based loosely on the structure of Usenet newsgroups then in existence.
Transition
The Gnuhoo directory went live on June 5, 1998, and was renamed Newhoo after a Slashdot article was posted in which posters claimed that Gnuhoo had nothing in common with the spirit of free software for which the GNU project was known and was simply a commercial enterprise seeking to construct an alternative to Yahoo! Directory using volunteer labor.[1] Newhoo became ODP after it was acquired by Netscape Communications Corporation in October 1998 and the content was released under an open content license. Netscape was acquired by AOL shortly thereafter, and ODP was one of the assets included in the acquisition. AOL later merged with Time-Warner.
Growth
By the time Netscape assumed stewardship, the Open Directory Project had about 100,000 URLs indexed with contributions from about 4500 editors. On October 5, 1999, the number of URLs indexed by ODP reached one million. According to an unofficial estimate, the number of URLs in the Open Directory surpassed the number of URLs in the Yahoo! Directory in April 2000 with about 1.6 million URLs. ODP achieved the milestones of indexing two million URLs on August 14, 2000, three million listings on November 18, 2001 and four million on December 3, 2003.
Current statistics
From January 2006 the Open Directory began to publish online reports to inform the public about the development of the project. The first report covered the year 2005. Monthly reports have been issued subsequently.
These reports give greater insight into the functioning of the directory than the simplified and potentially misleading statistics given on the front page of the directory. The number of listings and categories cited on the front page include "Test" and "Bookmarks" categories, but these are not included in the RDF dump offered to users. The number of editors cited on the front page is the total number of editor logins ever created, which includes many which are no longer active. The number of active editors is much lower.
Competing and spinoff projects
ODP inspired the formation of two other major web directories edited by volunteers and sponsored by public companies, both now defunct: Go.com directory (formerly owned by The Walt Disney Company), and Zeal (formerly owned by LookSmart). However neither of these web directories licensed their content for open content distribution, a strategy which ensured ODP's success in a highly competitive market. The concept of using a large-scale community of editors to compile online content has been successfully applied to other types of projects such as Wikipedia.
Three open content volunteer projects have been inspired by ODP's editing model: an open content restaurant directory known as ChefMoz (launched by ODP management), an open content music directory known as MusicMoz, and an encyclopedia known as Open Site. However none of the three have yet achieved success at the level of ODP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmoz
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1. Wait until your site looks pretty established. You can't submit a site that is under construction. You can't really submit a site that gives you a bunch of error messages.
2. Make sure to submit your site to the right category. You shouldn't just submit it to a category like Business, Arts or Society. You need to pick a very specific category.
3. Just submit once. If you submit multiple times, your site will sit at the end of the queue.
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funandcool
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| mmm it depends so much and varies so much, I submited my site 1 month ago and it's still not listed. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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It can take from 6 months to a year. It appears that some categories handle submissions so much faster than other categories. It would be nice if we know what those categories are, but ... there is no such data or analysis published.
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sinistermidget
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
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I've never been able to get into Dmoz. I've submitted several sites over the past few years, but none have been accepted. I don't really care too much though. Most of the SEO resources I read regularly tend to agree that a link from Dmoz isn't as important as it used to be. It may not be worthless (or worseless for you wickedfire readers  ), but I don't think it has the impact it once did. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| sinistermidget wrote: | | Most of the SEO resources I read regularly tend to agree that a link from Dmoz isn't as important as it used to be. It may not be worthless (or worseless for you wickedfire readers ), but I don't think it has the impact it once did. |
I kind of agree, but it's definitely worth submitting to. Google makes an entire copy of DMOZ, so once your site gets listed in DMOZ, the site will be listed in Google (Directory) as well. Also there are a bunch of DMOZ clones on the web. You'll acquire a bunch of inbound links as a result.
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Damnz
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| How long or if you even get in there totally counts on the editors of that specific directory you are submitting too. Take for example http://corruptdmozeditor.com to get a look at what really is happening over there. Personally, I don't even bother submitting to DMOZ these days... |
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retsop
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| Damnz wrote: | | How long or if you even get in there totally counts on the editors of that specific directory you are submitting too. Take for example http://corruptdmozeditor.com to get a look at what really is happening over there. Personally, I don't even bother submitting to DMOZ these days... |
Yes , I think the only posiblity to get in DMOZ is to get in contact with some corupt editor 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Getting into conatct, which would probably involve paying , or you might buy some similar related sites, with different content, fix up a small neat letter, and apply to become a DMOZ editor  . 
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