Thread: DMOZ Best Practices

Thought this would be a cool thread to start. We all know DMOZ is a hot link and we know that there are various ways to "ease" a listing getting up.

With that mentioned, there are surely best practices to get a listing live. I thought this could be a thread that we all contributed to and we edited the first post to reflect the group consensus. I know we have a few editors tucked away in here and guys that have gotten more than a handful of listings live.

The CAP Communities Official list of tips for getting on DMOZ:

1. Don't misspell anything in your title or listing.
2. It is easier to get into small specific categories than the large ones.
3. Make sure you have original and unique content.
4. Don't make it look like you're trying for an SEO link.
5. Don't repeatedly apply, this puts you at at the back of the line.

Here is a good post with some links to helpful resources: Getting Listed in DMOZ

GOOG said it wasnt anymore, anyway its nearly impossible to get in a gambling category these days unless your site offers something unique in this day and age...

It took at least 2 years for us to get listed in DMOZ. Only submitted one time and followed their instructions to a tee. Think the main thing is to be able to write an objective non-salesy description for you website, then it's just a waiting game until someone finally gets around to looking at it. And, yes, your site probably needs to stand out a bit from the other 100,000 that are also trying to get listed in the Online Gambling categories. Finding a niche category is helpful.

Yup, its tough all right. For any category let along gambling. But I think that if we at least arm ourselves with the best practices, we will have a slightly higher chance. Even if that means only 1-2% higher.

webber286, you said you followed the instructions to a tee, would you elaborate a bit on that? Did you have 20-25 words in your description? Did you capitalize the domain where new words started or just leave it in all lowercase etc.

Dont make it look like an SEO link request.

How about picking up a (totally unrelated) dropped domainname that is listed in dmoz and pointing it to your gambling site?

Would that help your site even though the dmoz listing is in a unrelated catagory?

DMOZ is not what it used to be so donty make it the end all be all of links. In ther old days it made a giant push for google rankings, that is no longer the case as of the last 3 years. DMOZ is great as you pick up a lot of links from sites using dmoz data but its really not a giant beast as it used to be.