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How long does it take to get accepted into the Dmoz Directory? June 13, 2007

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The official answer is depending on the activity of the category you submit to, it may take up to 2 weeks or more for your site to be reviewed.

So officially its at least 2 weeks or more, meaning months, in fact the reality is you can expect to wait many months depending on how busy the site editors are in your category.

Dmoz is moderated by people, site editors, actual people, the problem is that some categories not only require the OK from one editor but any editor higher up the category chain can refuse a submission, this is also what slows down the process.

There have been some horror stories of submissions waiting 6 months plus to be accepted or being rejected outright because the category editor was a competitor website or a friend of a competitor website, (of course these are just rumors).

In the end the only thing you can say for sure is humans are fallible and while Im sure these stories or generally not true, they can happen.

So donâ€™t expect to be added into dmoz, view it as a bonus, and be patient, the editors are volunteers and they work hard.

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