How to submit site in DMOZ?
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Zwielicht
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I remember I submitted a few sites to DMOZ years before they closed. I don't think they ever got updated in their index. I remember reading something about how it would sometimes take months or years for the submissions to get approved.
foleymon
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Here is a live copy of the directory.
This site includes information formerly made available via DMOZ.
http://dmoztools.net/
This site includes information formerly made available via DMOZ.
http://dmoztools.net/
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Yea lots of cats didn’t have admins, and lots had admins that only edited very occasionally, so depending where you submitted, your request could sit there for a long time.
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I was an admin there. Valuable tourism section.
I could see the moderation logs. Obvious selling all over the place, I knew who the sellers were.
I'm a black hat and I never sold a placement at DMOZ.
For real.
I did place one of my sites though (100% legit) into the category.
I liked DMOZ, I think it was a cool project.
Google today is doing a LOT of hand quality control. Google is essentially a larger DMOZ with tons of automated stuff but deep down they categorize things and sort them kinda like a directory would. Note that Google's initial crawl seed was DMOZ for many many years. Sites in DMOZ were highly trusted.
Google's end goal was to have a automatically built index which was as high quality as a human made one. I think DMOZ played a big part in it.
I could see the moderation logs. Obvious selling all over the place, I knew who the sellers were.
I'm a black hat and I never sold a placement at DMOZ.
For real.
I did place one of my sites though (100% legit) into the category.
I liked DMOZ, I think it was a cool project.
Google today is doing a LOT of hand quality control. Google is essentially a larger DMOZ with tons of automated stuff but deep down they categorize things and sort them kinda like a directory would. Note that Google's initial crawl seed was DMOZ for many many years. Sites in DMOZ were highly trusted.
Google's end goal was to have a automatically built index which was as high quality as a human made one. I think DMOZ played a big part in it.
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YujinTan
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Now kinda cannot submit new site, I can't even register an account there the page is broken link cannot find the page to register
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Yeah. Just had a flashback moment down memory lane.
Memory fails me for details though, seems like 40 years ago.
There was a photographer I met in real life. She was working in same niche as I was and for some reason I can't remember now I discovered she was an editor there selling placements. I don't remember how I found out but it was funny, I thought what are the odds....she kept it secret and I never let her know that I knew. DMOZ was cool.
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No no....as others said....DMOZ is read-only now. It's just a snapshot. It's no longer alive. There is no one behind it nor any submission system. It's just a bunch of frozen HTML pages.
YujinTan
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i see , noted .