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A few years ago if you would have whispered
"DMOZ" in someone's ear, they would have thought you were
crazy. Today the human edited directory over at dmoz.org, called
the 'Open Directory Project', or ODP, and its dead link crushing
robot called "Robozilla", powers the results of over 200
search engines and directories. Some of the engines that use the
results include AOLsearch,
Netscape search, MSN,
and many more. For a complete list of sites click here.
As you can see, getting your site listed with ODP, means good news,
as eventually ( it sometimes takes months ) your site will appear
in the engines that use the ODP data. Google also uses ODP data
for its directory located at http://directory.google.com/,
and Google also uses the ODP description in its normal listings
if the site is listed in the ODP.
There are no tricks really to getting your
site listed. It may help if you read the ODP guidelines here,
and the submission section here.
One of the downfalls of the ODP directory,
is that the editors are people just like you and I. Sometimes the
category that your trying to get listed in, may have an editor that
is actually one of your competitors, so getting listed may take
a bit. Be sure that when you submit your site, that its not 'under
construction', and that there isn't any broken links. This is important.
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