Comments on: Do Dmoz Editors Ask For Your Site Password?

By: chusty

chusty — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:49:50 +0000

ahh.. that’s dmoz, you can never be sure

By: Jon K.

Jon K. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:28:31 +0000

Just a quick comment – I was a DMOZ editor up until 2004 or so. At that time there was a huge backlog of sites, sometimes dating back to a year in categories that were under represented by editors. As one of you previous comments stated, an editor can ask for a test account if your website is password protected. Otherwise, you are either being scammed or the editor is abusing their power.

As for how to get listed? Make sure the description is excellent, submit your site to the correct category (ie. drill down to the best category, not just top level categories) and most of all be patient. There was guidelines in place to prevent a person from listing their own site, don’t know if things change that way.

By: J.K.

J.K. — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:36:49 +0000

Thanks, PK, for your comment and “Contact” message. Which password are you referring to? Oh… have removed course access for that username now.

How do you know that Dmoz editors don’t use Gmail accounts to send Dmoz related messages?

By the way, fyi: your comment went to my spam queue earlier. My focus is more on learning, design and technology. Therefore, I normally link to blogs on such topics.

By: pktan

pktan — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:35:52 +0000

If i am you, i will change my password now. DMOZ editors DONT use Gmail accounts to send out DMOZ related emails.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 May 2007 06:11:54 +0000

The question I’m left with is Does anyone have tips on how to get accepted into DMOZ? I have an ecommerce site (PR 2) that I know would blow up in rankings if I got in, but everybody says it’s so tough. Thoughts?

By: J.K.

J.K. — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:38:46 +0000

Thanks, all. Each one of you have articulated some of my thoughts. At the end of the day, I still don’t know what to make of this. :-p

By: victoria

victoria — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:15:26 +0000

hmmmm…. i’ve never received an email like that and i’ve submitted tons of work websites and my own websites to dmoz.

By: Svend

Svend — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:38:13 +0000

looks fishy to me as well. I agree with LCf and tschild that it could be anyone and secondly why would he need to do that?

just leave it and if he needs to he will probably contact you again

By: tschild

tschild — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:35:32 +0000

Looks fishy to me. Anyone can represent himself as a dmoz editor and get a gmail.com account with “dmoz” in the user name – that’s not any proof that he’s in fact an ODP editor. Furthermore, looking at your site, I don’t see why a test login would be needed to review and describe your site – you can see what the site’s content is without any need to unlock the individual e-learning courses on the site. Looks like you have been scammed. Did you in fact submit the site to the Open Directory? If so, it might be useful to file an abuse complaint using the “report abuse/spam” form linked from the top of the category page (of the category where you suggested the site) on dmoz.org.

By: LcF

LcF — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:18:01 +0000

if your site is a membership website which required log on, then the Dmoz editor may requires a TEST account.

By: The Uncharted Waters

The Uncharted Waters — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:40:39 +0000

I submitted my company website to DMOZ around 4 months ago. Till now, I have not received any replies and my site is not listed. But I saw my competitors’ sites listed there. Mine is a software company website, no porno or things like that.

I sort of give up on them.