Summary of Company
The Open Directory Project maintained by a global community of human volunteers is the most comprehensive directory on the web. Based on the spirit of the Open Source movement Open Directory is supported on the concept of 100% free submission and retrieval. Open Directory supplies directory information to some of the largest companies on the Internet including Google, Netscape, AOL, Hotbot and more.
Technology– Human: listings compiled by human editors.
Free: The Open Directory is a human edited directory, meaning that all sites listed in the directory are reviewed by human editors. Open Directory best resembles a vast reference library where information is arranged hierarchically by subject from broad to specific detail. Maintained by human volunteers who act as experts to evaluate what sites are accepted and which are excluded. Interestingly enough, the editors have no control over individual category rankings -- they either let you in or keep you out. How you rank is based upon a secret formula that only the Colonel knows. Getting your site listed in the Open Directory is crucial, since their results contribute if not power many of the major search engines on the web - identified as sites using OPD data. Before submitting your site, you should find the categories where you want your site to be listed. Be aware that each page in your site can be submitted to only one category in the Open Directory.
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Submission Times - Because this is volunteer-based editing and inclusion it can take up to 8 weeks (reportedly sometimes 6 or more months) to get listed in The Open Directory. Once there, it may take additional time for the listing to be used by sites using ODP data. You may be rejected by the category editor without explanation, but a common cause is that you may not offer unique content to the topic.
The thing to remember is that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within The Open Directory before you register your pages. Just registering with The Open Directory does not assure a suitable ranking.
Provides Content to:
Primary:
Lycos
Secondary:
FAST (AllTheWeb)
Directory:
AOL Search
Hotbot
Google
Teoma
Lycos
Ask Jeeves
Altavista
Netscape
Receives Content from:
None
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