A Web Design Impossibility? 5 Crucial Steps To A Successful Dmoz Submission


by Stuart Mortimer - Date: 2007-07-01 - Word Count: 540 Share This!

For effective search engine optimization, there is still a very important thing that you need to do to make sure your website can be seen in the top search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) - It is still very important to submit your site to DMOZ.

DMOZ provides lots of search results for most of the top search engines and directories, including the biggest of them all - Google. It's important to understand that DMOZ is NOT a robot based crawler like Google but a large, human edited directory of the Web. There are 5 steps that need to be followed in order for your DMOZ submission to be successful:

Step 1)

You need to make sure your full contact information is displayed on your website. By this I mean your physical postal address. A website without a postal address or worst still no contact details at all would almost certainly be rejected by a DMOZ category editor.

Step 2)
Do not under any circumstances become impatient and start spamming the directory. You should only submit your site once and then you can forget it for three or four months. DMOZ recommend that you submit your site to only one category - the most relevant one to your site. In certain cases I have seen big sites that cover multiple topics listed in multiple categories but these are in a minority. Submit your site only to the most important category

Step 3)
The DMOZ editors are looking for sites that are information rich and offer good and original content. If your site does not have an abundance of decent content. I suggest that you work on that first before submitting your site at all. After all the reason the search engines values DMOZ so highly is that it is a concentrated collection of quality websites. They didn't get their excellent reputation by listing just any websites!

Step 4)

Select the most appropriate category for your DMOZ submission. Another reason the search engines love directories is that they arrange links to websites by their theme and associated keywords. For example, if you have a web design business based in Doncaster, UK then make sure you submit your website to the category that lists Doncaster based web design companies not simply the first web design category that you come to. It really is worth the extra effort of finding the proper category. After all, you're going to have to wait long enough for a response anyway.

Step 5)
Submit your site. At this crucial stage you must take every care to enter the most accurate information about your website possible. Make sure to read the editorial guidelines and adhere to them at all times. Anything less will mean that your website will not be accepted into the directory. When you have submitted make sure to store the URL of the category that you have submitted your site to - put it in your favorites. This will make it very easy for you to periodically check if your site has been listed.

Conclusion:

Getting listed in the DMOZ directory is tough. Some people believe it is an actual impossibility. By following the advice in this article you can give yourself the best possible change of being accepted into the directory and gaining the backing of this search engine giant!

Related Tags: submission, steps, dmoz

Stuart is a freelance website designer in Doncaster UK who specialises in search engine friendly web design doncaster for companies of all types.

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