DMOZ Friends

Found a post on one of the outsourcing job sites (paraphrased):

I have Pagerank 3 e-commerce site. I’m in the adult business. I need a listing in the DMOZ. I’ll pay once it’s verified, not just a submission. Please bid only if you can GUARANTEE the listing. I will not pay until it’s out there & verified.

My question is this: “are you smokin’ crack, or just generally messed up”? Either way, here are some reasons why you possibly are:

1. DMOZ is a highly valued site in the eyes of search engines (Google), and will not accept crap. Hey, if you had a PR (pagerank) of 7, and a couple more adult sites, you might get accepted!
2. DMOZ absolutely does not guarantee anything, and if you are on a site and you get somebody to help you, forget it – they’re scammin’ ‘ya!
3. DMOZ takes a very long time (weeks, months, years?) to get an entry validated. The guys/gals over there are busy fighting spammers like you, so just stop it.

And, if you are a legit outfit, a solid website with tons of good, useful content, and not a mirror of thousands of other websites, and — you have committed to succeeding online, well then – maybe you have a chance – but don’t expect much. Instead, go elsewhere, and build relevant (themed) links. Don’t worry about Pagerank (at all!), and start by writing a quality article and manually distribute to a few, top article directories.