Open Directory Project

Good valuable links are the key to high rankings in Google. One of them is dmoz link. DMOZ is The Open Directory Project (ODP)(from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name)It is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.

The problem with dmoz is that it can take long time to be included and actually it looks it is easy to be rejected. Dmoz editors no longer look only for original content. Content has to be unique in comparison to websites already in a particular dmoz category. Thus many good looking and new designed websites do not qualify not because they have duplicated content but because they have no edge over older already included websites.

For example if you create website about SEO and put lots of originally written content it can be rejected simply because there are hundreds websites about SEO and yours has nothing more to offer over already accepted listings.

There is a good news though. My experience shows that you do not need to wait several months or years to be listed. I have submitted 5 websites about 2 months ago. Recently looking into their statistics I found out that 2 of them were visited by dmoz editor. They apparently were rejected as i haven't seen them being listed yet more likely because of reasons discussed above. But 2 months is no so long and i am confident that if the websites will be improved they can get listed.

For more information you can check this topic on DMOZ forums with some insights about waiting time.