Dmoz Editor Rejection
Yup, i got rejected - how lovely. What am I talking about you ask? DMOZ is an open directory project. As it’s “open” it’s run and moderated by tons and tons of voluteers. Not exactly easy to land a volunteer position however as you can see by going through the forum. I volunteered to edit a very small category because I’m a Giant nut (Bigblueblogger is mine). Now when I applied to edit/moderate that subcategory, I thought my biggest obstacle was the fact that I have a site in that same category. Many virtual internet people advise not to choose such a category as it diminishes your chances (because they don’t want you signing up for the wrong reasons). That was never my intention at all, but that’s also not why I got rejected. I got rejected because I didn’t submit ALL my web sites on the application which asked for my web sites. My list goes pretty deep and I surely didn’t think they needed ALL of them… I think that’s nutty.
Why do I want to be a part of that? I don’t know, I think just to work a little on the backend of a directory like DMOZ would be pretty cool. It would without a doubt allow me to focus on writing good, clean, keywork heavy content as I would have to basically re-write (or simply approve) all the sites that get submitted. This is something I’m obviously taking in interest in lately, working with search engines, SEO, and just writing good keyword rich content.
So What next? Well, I’ll put together my list, actually i’ve already started, and i’ll apply again. I think lots of people apply over and over and eventually fix up their application enough to get it - it’s like a driving test. Like I said, the e-mail sent to me only indicated that I was rejected because I didn’t supply all my websites. So i’ll do that and the poor guy on the other end will have alot of clicking to do.
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