It’s funny. I have another site that got into DMOZ years ago without even trying. I didn’t even submit it. The only marketing I did with it was submit it to local directories since it was a locally-based site. Hmmmm….

But my main niche self-help site is another story. Since 2005 I had been submitting it twice a year to DMOZ and could never get in. I was trying to get into the categories I really wanted, with the keywords I really wanted. No success.

A month or two ago I started wondering about the other site that was already in dmoz. How’d it get in there? Was there some connection to the local directories? Was some dmoz editor checking other directories for fodder?

So I checked my backlinks in Yahoo to see which links were actually showing up and then submitted my MAIN site to those local sites too. While I was at it, I also submitted it to the local section of DMOZ. Hey, why not?

*ANY* link in dmoz has got to be better than none, right? Have YOU submitted to your local category?

Well, I just checked tonight, and lo & behold, there is the link.

Strangely enough, SEO tools and rank checking sites don’t recognize the link yet. Why not? Isn’t that weird? How do they find them anyway? I assume a tool like SEOQuake just does some search of the dmoz site for my link. I don’t understand.

Either way, I OnlyWired the page since it has no PR. Let’s at least help Google find it, right?

Hey, any insight anyone can give would be appreciated. Pls comment below.