The Open Directory Project is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is a bit like a huge research library. The directory is arranged by topics arranged in a hierarchical order, the widest to the most specific. The ODP is maintained by community editors who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. They are our experts and all proposals are evaluated by an editor.
We pay great attention to the quality of the ODP. We are not a search engine and build pride in being extremely selective. We do not accept all sites, so please do not take a refusal of your site for harassment. Our goal is to make the directory as useful as possible for our users, not to ensure it contains all or even most, sites that could be described and is not more to make it a promotional tool for the organizations listed.
To keep the ODP a smooth operation and to help us in our editorial choices, we have established rules on proposed sites. We may refuse, delete or modify the proposals that violate these rules or that we think, in our sole discretion, that the corresponding site should not be included in the directory. We can also reject, delete or block other sites that we believe to be associated with a user who violates these rules.
We advise you to spend a few moments to assimilation of these rules and stages of proposal for a site before you start. Failing to understand and follow these instructions, you run a great risk that your proposal rejected.
* First step – Preconditions
*Second stage – pre Search
* Step Three – Choose a category
* Step Four – Proposed Site
* Update your website
* Inclusion of your site in the portals and search engines using ODP data
* Choice editorials
* Blog Review
Determine whether a site may be a proposal to the ODP:
* Do not submit mirror sites. These are sites that have identical content but different URLs.
* Do not submit URLs that have more or less the same content as other sites you have already registered in the directory. Sites with an overlap of content are not useful for users of the directory. Multiple proposals from the same site or similar sites can lead to exclusion and / or elimination of these and all affiliated sites.
* Do not disguised proposals to move the same URL more than once. Example: http://www.dmoz.org and http://www.dmoz.org/index.html.
* Do not submit a site whose address redirects to another.
* The Open Directory has a policy not to accept sites whose content is illegal under U.S. law, for example child pornography, defamation, materials that infringe the intellectual property rights, and any material encourage, solicit or sanction any illegal activity (such as fraud or violence).
* Do not submit sites “under construction”. Wait until the site is completed before the offer. Sites incomplete, containing opinions “Under Construction” or graphics or broken links are not good candidates for the directory.
* Submit pornographic sites to the appropriate category from the “Adult”.
* Offer English sites to the appropriate category from the homepage (dmoz.org) and those in languages other than English or French in the appropriate category of World.
* Do not submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links.
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Adding the blog in open directory project is not easy. Only blogs like this will qualify.
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My blog is listed in Open directory project. Yes, this blog deserve to be listed in DMOZ
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Following these steps, and having the capacity to wait for a long time will allow you to list your site with the ODP ..
Personally, I will not submit my site to the OD until I’ll find it a lot better than the ones listed in there ..
Thank you for sharing these tips with us.
Good advice, thanks for sharing. I’ll try to submit my personal tech blog and hope for the best.
Nice article, quite descriptive and informative. But i have a confusion here. When you say ODP or Open Directory Project, are you pointing out to just DMOZ or is there something more that i’m missing here?
Thanks. I’m not a fan of DMOZ.
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This is a well written tip on how to add the blog into ODP. Hopefully I can get approved for my other sites later on.
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I have tryed many times to submit my sites and I followed every time your steps. Unfortunately, many people say that you need to bribe dmoz editors to get your site listed there.
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