: Time to wait before submitting again site to DMOZ.org Most sites I have done, got listed in DMOZ. It has always being a very frustrating process that required waiting for months. For some of

@Samaraweera270

My advice: Become an editor. For most categories, you have better odds of becoming an editor than you do getting your website accepted.

I'm an editor of my own niche category and there were 600 websites in queue when I first logged in. Most of these websites had been in queue for years. The second I was accepted, I submitted my website (and linked it to my editor profile to comply with the honesty guidelines) and submitted some other key websites in my niche to make a good contribution that wasn't purely self-servicing.

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@Steve110

It's very possible that there is simply no editor for your category. Or, they may have rejected your site for some reason. Either way, I'd give it another try after 4-6 months if it's not there and then just forget about it. It will either get approved or not, but a single link isn't worth spending a lot of time on, even if it is DMOZ. There are other ways to get links.

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@Kaufman445

As a former editor I know that in some categories without editors, the list of sites just grows. When I first started on my specific category, nothing had changed for more than a year. Technically, there is no definite answer. It is possible that even after months, still nobody has added/rejected your site. Getting information on why your site was rejected is next to impossible.

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@Cofer257

You'd need to wait at least two months (if not three) to ensure your site has been rejected.

If your site was not listed then obviously you need to look at the reasons why. Make some changes to the site if necessary, then resubmit.

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@Cody1181609

An ODP editor will review your
submission to determine whether to
include it in the directory. Depending
on factors such as the volume of
submissions to the particular
category, it may take several weeks or
more before your submission is
reviewed. Please only submit a URL to
the Open Directory once.


DMOZ Submission Guidelines


I should have explained in my question
that I know on DMOZ guideline they say
to submit site only once.


Unfortunately, there are very few (if any) guarantees that you will be able to address a declined submission at DMOZ no matter how many times you resubmit, so my best advice would be to move on to other venues for advertising rather than risk evoking the ire of DMOZ's editor(s) for the category you're submitting to (a second and final request sent after 6 months seems reasonable, though).

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