Dmoz is a famous directory that almost every webmasters know. Every webmaster more or less have heard about Dmoz. Dmoz is able to help your site rank for the targeted keywords. It is operated by a group of volunteered editors. The editors have their daytime job so they are not able to review the site for the whole day. They will only review the entry during the free time.
Before submitting to Dmoz, you should read the submission guidelines. If you read the submission guidelines, you will be able to increase the chances of your website get accepted. Your website have to offer unique information. If your website offer the same kinds of information as did the website already listed in the directory, it is less likely that the editor will included it in listing. The description should contain 2 – 5 sentences. It should briefly describe the content of the site. If your site is selling a product, make sure the description explain what the product does. You don’t have to go into details about the features of the product. The most important thing is to let the editor knows what you are offering. Affiliate websites will be rejected by the editor. Mirror sites are also not accepted. Mirror sites are sites that contain the same content with another site.
You should only submit your site to the Dmoz directory once. Repeated submission entries will be deleted by the editor. You can submit the subdomains of the site to different relevant categories. For example, if your site has a subdomain about wedding cake and another subdomain about cheese cake, you can submit both of the them to Dmoz in different categories. You can submit the wedding cake subdomain to the wedding cake category. For the cheese cake subdomain, you can submit it to the cheese cake category.
Dmoz is the most important directory in the internet. Despite that, it is not necessary to submit to it. Not many websites will get listed in Dmoz. This is because their staffs are volunteered. Because their staffs are not paid a salary, they won’t spend time to review each site. The staff will only review the site when they have time. Hence, it take a long time for a website to get approved. Many volunteerers are committed to review the site carefully. Therefore, you will find little spam websites in Dmoz. Poor quality directories tend to have a lot of spam sites such as mirror sites, redirected URL, duplicated content and etc.
Some SEO company offer Dmoz submission service. You can buy a Dmoz submission service to increase the chance of your website getting listed. After you are listed in Dmoz, your website will be spidered by many search engines. After 1 – 2 weeks, your website will appear in the search result. Websites that are listed in Dmoz often are given priority in the keyword ranking. However, other SEO ranking factors are still taken into account such as domain age, backlinks and etc.
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