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DMOZ does not claim to be a listing service. It allows people to submit sites they think will enhance the directory. Basically that means having unique content.
Those offered are suggestions, we do not undertake to list them or even to review them in good time. They have to sit in the suggestions pool until a volunteer editor, working in their own spare time at their hobby decides to build up that particular category and use the suggestions pool. They do not have to use the pool it is only one of many resources that they will use. It is because this is the reality that DMOZ do not promise a time scale for sites to be reviewed let alone listed.
It is imperative that sites are offered to the correct category, because if they are offered to the wrong category then they have to wait for a review and that review will send them to the correct category and they sit and wait again.
It can help to become an editor, but if the meta editor reviewing your application gets the impression that you are ONLY interested in listing your own site you will not be accepted. Carefully study the guidelines offered of how to apply. If you acn't follow those instructions it will be deemed that you will not be able to follow editing instructions either.
One of those instructions which badams seems to have failed to read or follow is when submitting a site do it only once. Submitting several times only overwrites the earlier offering, and for those who look through the suggestions pool in order of submissions, means it goes to the bottom of the list they will look at. Too many submissions can get a site branded as spamming the directory and barred.
MOTTO
Submit and forget, go promote your site somewhere else there is nothing more, short of becoming an editor, that you can do to promote it. Sorry if that is not what you wanted to hear, but DMOZ seeks to build a directory according to its guidelines for those who use it, we are not there to promote websites or give them PR.
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