based on personal experience it takes forever to get into it.
In the mean time ive heard bad stories about Dmoz Extortion and tend to kinda believe them(no experience here).

in my experience, anywhere between three weeks and never!

I've often had acceptances in categories without an editor, I sometimes think this is dependent on how niche it is (i.e. does a parent category have an editor?)

Is DMOZ even worth it then? IS there anyway to check on status?

Some editors can edit anywhere, so even when submitting to an empty category you can get lucky - if that editor just happens to pass by to boost a site a friend made. They just may accept other sites as well in one go.

Is it worth it - it's still a trusted link that gets copied all over the internet. It's not really going to get you traffic like wikipedia does, but then most links don't.

At one time, it was worth it, but DMOZ is so poorly run that most SEO professionals that I know have just ignored it. An I am still amazed that Google has them as a partner with all of the junk sites and outdated stuff in there.

This must be down to availbale editors I submitted my site to a particular category and nothing happened for 6 months, I submitted it to an alternative category before Christmas and my listings now appeared. My advise would be to chose a category that looks busy eben if it isn't a direct fit to your business - have a think about where else you may fit for example where are you based rather than what you do / provide.
Thx, Tom

We still submit to Dmoz on behalf of all of our clients but are rarely getting results these days. It used to be incredibly frustrating but we are resigned to it now. Luckily it is far less of the link popularity mix than it used to be.

It take such little effort that we always submit to DMOZ for our clients. But for the past year, I do not think we have had a single listing approved.

I totally agree... wish Google would just drop the whole concept.

There was a great post on the DMOZ Blog about this very topic.

http://blog.dmoz.org/2007/10/08/why-hasnt-my-site-been-accepted-into-dmoz/

Submissions are treated as valuable suggested sites to consider, but the value of DMOZ/ODP is that we do not accept every submission. In fact, we select very few. And for that reason, the major search engines and 1000s of vertical search engines rely on and appreciate our links.

Also, the extortion claims are baseless.

Especially those coming from a source like Shoemonkey.com. Who was recently booted from the Yahoo Affiliate program b/c 65% of the customers he sent were paying with illegal credit cards.

http://www.pagetrafficblog.com/mybloglog-bans-shoemoney-suffers-boycott/1380/

If you have no experience with DMOZ...please don't believe everything you read.

After waiting for over 2 years for them to add my listing - I have given up. I don't think it just has to do with the site's quality as I ahve seen some very outdated websites int he directory and my website is a very well designed resource website. I agree totally wish Google would drop it!

You have to add it continuosly I think if you don't get accepted initially - improve your site, add content and gain some backlinks etc. then try again perhaps after 3 months or so.

That's my only suggestion but... I don't have experience with it. I've been waiting around 2 weeks now but I don't count on anything.

indeed,it's incredibly unpredictable to get into dmoz.

I have never had any joy with this outdated dinosaur, I have tried the catagories that have few listings thinking that would be better than highly competitive areas, maybe I will try the popoular cats.

I listed my site a year ago and still nothing. I think its a very unfair system how they don't even respond to tell you whats your status.

Hi,
What if we submit a website 3 weeks after the first submission? Will they consider it sort of SPAM? or could that be a way to get it reviewed?
Thankc

i submited my site 3 months ago still no joy

I submitted to DMOZ probably 6+ months ago. Still waiting for it to show up.

i submitted my site back 9 months ago with no luck yet