Open Directory Project (ODP) Submission Tips

Open Directory Project (ODP) Submission Tips

DMOZ is also known as "Open Directory Project" (ODP). Besides Yahoo, it's the largest human-compiled directory of the Web. It contains almost four million Web sites maintained by a global community of volunteer editors.

If you manage to get your site listed in the DMOZ directory, you will improve your Google ranking considerably because your site will also be listed in the Google directory which mirrors the DMOZ directory.

Besides Google, many other search engines use the DMOZ directory to supplement their own database, for example AllTheWeb, Excite, HotBot, Lycos, Teoma and many country specific search engines.

There are more than 20,000 volunteers who make-up the Open Directory Project’s indexing core. The criteria for getting listed in the Open Directory Project (also known as DMOZ) are a little tight and many of the pages submitted are not indexed on the first try.

However, if you use a little common sense and follow some pretty basic rules, getting your submissions listed shouldn't be a problem.

The following are some guidelines to consider before submitting your site to ODP.