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Many sites listed according to practices and rules that are no longer allowed

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If you have the Google Toolbar installed, you may have noticed sites where every page that you go to shows the "Google Web Directory" button lighting up. Every page of the site seems to have a listing in a different appropriate directory. You might be embolded by this to submit the main category pages of your website to various appropriate subcategories in Open Directory.

Don't do it.

Listing multiple deep pages within a site, pages other than the home page, is called Deep Linking. According to editors on the "Public Forum Sponsored and Moderated By ODP Editors" at http://www.resource-zone.com, deep linking is an old practice that is no longer allowed. "Those sites that are most deserving of a deeplinking are not the sites that ask for it." Editors must notice your site is appropriate for multiple deep links, and recommend you accordingly, without your having asked.

This anti-deep-linking policy is not made real clear on their submissions page. It's possible to find many examples of sites that have multiple deep links in the ODP. It's easy to stumble, and follow the example of one of these older deep linked sites, and try to helpfully submit multiple pages of your own site to the appropriate categories in DMOZ.

Don't do it.

What To Do To Get Listed In The Open Directory Project

Take the time to find the proper category for your site. Submitting to a wrong category will usually delay, if not make it impossible, your site submission getting listed in the directory. Also make sure your site is complete, and make sure it is unique. Affiliate information copied from elsewhere will not get you listed, no matter how good your organizational skills are. For the category you are submitting to, try to have a different point of view, or unique information for that category. Editors often dont list sites with the same information as what they already have. Write a non promotional, objective, description in your site submission. And don't expect an immediate listing. Submit your listing, then forget about it for at least a couple of months, and go back to work building your site.

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