How to Get Approved by DMOZ Directory

All webmasters and bloggers knows how it’s very hard to get approved and submitted to the largest human-edited directory – DMOZ. Submission on this web directory is important for SEO factor of your site, and may gives you better SERP results and effects. I have tried to submit my previous domain name to this directory for more than a year – and it’s not submitted yet!

I’m sure that DMOZ editors are really tired to see sites with the same niche over and over again. Niches like Making Money Online, Web Hosts, Funny Videos or Images, Fan Sites, Insurance sites, Celebrity blogs, Blogs about Blogging, Webmasters and much other niches.

Reasons to be Ignored by DMOZ

To get submitted on DMOZ, you need to be lucky and try not to brake following reasons to make directory to ignore you.

• Re-Submission over and over again
• Standard, Average and Bad Design
• Spamming Site and Auto Blogs
• Too Much Advertisements on the pages
• Copyrighted images and contents
• Linking to copied material or illegal one
• Free hosted blog, site or forums
• Linking to suspected and questionable sites
• Bad grammar, spelling and English
• Offensive Content

DMOZ is a G-Rated family directory. You are not allowed to submit any illegal, adult or any other suspicious sites on this directory.

Unique and Quality Factor

Write quality, good and unique contents on your blog can drastically increase your chance to be approved on DMOZ directory (or any other respective directory on the internet). Note that directories like and wants to include good, professional and unique sites – simply because there’re so many not quality sites, forums and blogs on the internet.

What Do you Get from DMOZ Actually

Think about what do you get from submission at DMOZ directory. I have read so many articles on more webmaster forums from users which have approved sites by this directory. Comparing to what they says, submission to DMOZ directory actually doesn’t give you satisfied traffic and even better SEO rank.

Maybe that time is passed. SEO is much less important that it was back in 3-4 years. Simply because most search engines uses more advanced techniques to crawl your site and display results on own Result Pages.

Anyway, any of my sites are not (yet) submitted to the largest online human-edited directory, so I can’t tell you what good submission get’s to you actually. Fact is that there are many peoples which says that they don’t get noticeable improvements from DMOZ.

DMOZ Technical Factor

For me, DMOZ looks too simple and has very bad design for today’s standards. Anyway, it’s very popular – with PR 8 and Alexa Rank near ~ 500 is a very good result, specially for a web directory.

DMOZ is the largest human-edited directory on the internet. It’s created and maintained by real humans, community and volunteer editors. And it’s completely free and open for anyone! From this factor, you may get some improvements with submission to this directory. But that’s just in theory.

Anyway, you can try to submit your site to this directory – it’s free after all and you may get lucky!