DMOZ – Open Directory Project (Get your site in their directory to improve your rankings)
Raising your rankings happens a number of ways. Remember using WebsiteGrader for evaluating how far reaching your voice is being heard globally? Well, in your website’s report it ought to mention which search engines you haven’t registered with. If you have checked your site’s report card shortly after hanging your shingle and registering with all these online directories like Yahoo, DMOZ and the like it’s time for you to pour a Guinness and go sit outside on the patio. Better yet, open up your calendar and enter a date 60-days or so in the future to return to these directories to check if your site got listed. This all takes patience, my friend. And the reward of patience, is patience.
Once your site submission has been received a DMOZ editor will review your submission for inclusion in the directory. If it gets accepted into the Open Directory –and that may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. –all due to the fact that each of these search engines has their own agenda for checking with DMOZ.
And unless you paid the fee Yahoo! wanted to wring out of you to speed up submission wait time, you better take a chill pill or two. Their entry page warns you that their submission page is on “overwhelm”. Since I’m a bit on the cheapside, I rolled the dice and crossed my left fingers while clicking the submit button with my right hand without paying. (I was submitting my TallForeheads site to their Health Directory: Genetic Diseases and suggesting they make a category for Down syndrome). Only time will tell if they accepted me or not. If they did, I can be found at Su Casa’s in La Jolla at happy hour with a celebatory Margarita in hand. If they didn’t, and I am having some blog-shock from my website for children with Down syndrome being rejected by Yahoo (or DMOZ) I still might be found at Su Casa but I’ll be rethinking my online marketing strategy.
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