How to Submit Website to DMOZ (The Open Directory Project)?
How to register your website with DMOZ to submit and index in Google, AOL Search, AltVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search?
Update: DMOZ has closed their service in March 2017, so please skip this article. You won't find DMOZ directory website in search engine.
There are not any alternatives of Directory submission to divert traffic and get search visibility.
If you can submit your website in higher rank directory then your Website page rank and traffic will increase day by day. On the other hand you would get healthy backlink from directory for your website.
Among many popular directories DMOZ is one of the best Open directories. Even Google and AOL search use website index data from DMOZ.
DMOZ is currently powers core directory services for many
popular search engines including Google search Engine, AOL Search, Netscape
Search, Lycos, HotBot and other many least popular search engines.
But the DMOZ is not an automated directory, this directory edited by human who are working as volunteer editors.
But the DMOZ is not an automated directory, this directory edited by human who are working as volunteer editors.
So after submitting your site to DMOZ it can take several
weeks to months to get index on their directory.
However this is difficult to get index on DMOZ directory but if they index then this is good for your website’s credibility. In this article I will show you about submitting your site to DMOZ directory to get index.
However this is difficult to get index on DMOZ directory but if they index then this is good for your website’s credibility. In this article I will show you about submitting your site to DMOZ directory to get index.
Step 1 Visit http://www.dmoz.org/ and select
appropriate category for submission.
Step 2 This is
necessary to finding accurate category according to your site’s subject and
nature. Otherwise they won’t index your site. So keep drilling through the
category and sub-categories until you find appropriate one.
Step 3 After
locating the appropriate category click suggest
URL text link from the top.
Step 4 From URL
submission page write your Site URL,
Site Title, Site Description, Your Email address, and solve the user verification
code. Finally click Submit button
from the bottom of the page.
Step 5 DMOZ will
now show Submission Received
message. However it will take minimum 2 weeks to several months for your site
to be listed on DMOZ directory.
DMOZ is a human edited site, and they have assigned editors
for each category. So when editor will see your submission then will index it
on the DMOZ directory.
That’s the guideline for indexing the website on DMOZ
directory.
After indexing in DMOZ directory your site will start appear on AOL Search, AltVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search and in many more search engine. So there is great opportunity to get more traffic from new search engines. Regarding this if you have any query then feel free to write me.
After indexing in DMOZ directory your site will start appear on AOL Search, AltVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search and in many more search engine. So there is great opportunity to get more traffic from new search engines. Regarding this if you have any query then feel free to write me.
6 comments
domoz index manually so you have to wait after site submit.