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costo
Joined: Sep 13, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 00:57
I encountered the past months a lot of troubles while trying to submit to DMOZ. Looks like their servers are heavily overloaded.
To save myself the time of trying to submit -> Seeing an error -> hitting the backbutton -> resubmut numerous times I created a little script that would do the job for me.
As I know that many people are encountering problems trying to submit to DMOZ, you can use mine for free.
It'll try to submit until your website was submitted successfully, if that happened, you get an email confirming that your submission was successfull.
You might want to give it a try:
[url removed.]
The script only supports Englisch and Dutch categories.
feedback is welcome!
Fill in the form as you would fill one on DMOZ's website.
Hope this helps you!
[ Message was edited by: thejenn 10/14/2003 11:01 am ]
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
# Posts: 1098
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 10:47
Looks interesting, but have you checked that it doesn't violate their TOS?
I think one of the resons for their servers being overloaded is because of automated submitters like this, so you may indeed be making the problem worse. How agressive is your script (eg how many attempts does it make per minute)?
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costo
Joined: Sep 13, 2002
# Posts: 44
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 13:19
Hello,
The script has been designed to only act when there is data to submit, when there's no data to submit, it doesn't even make a connection to ODP.
If there is data to submit, My cron job was set to attempt once every minute. Untill now, all sites that were submitted by my script didn't take more then 2 attempts.
It looks that their TOS don't mind my kind of script.
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
# Posts: 1098
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 13:26
Thanks for your answers costo 
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skiguide
Joined: Feb 02, 2001
# Posts: 761
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 16:07
You should never, ever, use an automated submission for DMOZ.
I know that the problems with submissions/connections issues are very frustrating right now, but this is NOT a good alternative, as "automated submissions" are among the first to get flagged as spam. If your submission form is passing on an IP (and my guess it is) to the ODP, then that's the first problem with it.
You don't know that your submission was actually 'accepted successfully' either. There's quite a bit of debate about what makes it through and what doesn't during these submission errors.
Trust me, you don't want to risk having an excessive amount of submissions waiting for review. And having
a blank fillin form for the category is also an issue -
I can only guess how many people will either leave it blank, or make mistakes on the URL paths - not good for the backlog!
You don't know what issues it's causing on the back-end, editing side of dmoz, so I strongly suggest that people DO NOT use this script to submit sites.
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costo
Joined: Sep 13, 2002
# Posts: 44
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 17:37
Ok, I agree that automated submissions are a big no-no for SE's.
About being sure wether or not the site was submitted: I'll tell you a little about my script:
What it does is try a submission IF there is any data to be submitted.
Quote: 'You don't know that your submission was actually 'accepted successfully' either.'
The script reads in what it returns from DMOZ. If the script can recognize 'Submission received', then an email is sent to the email specified in the form. If not a resubmission is attempted.
A blank fill in form is not possible either: my script will not act when a form is left blank.
I'm not worried about tracking my IP: Script is protected for that as well.
I would say: If you do not agree with my script: don't use it. As simple as that.
Thank you for the comments.
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colorspots
Joined: Jul 17, 2000
# Posts: 245
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Posted: 2003-Oct-10 18:33
All I have to say is I am at least 0/20 in trying to submit to dmoz and getting listed. I actually don't even bother any more. I have a few personal sites that are ranked decently in google so i just create a page documenting and describing the site I am working on so it gets spidered through those.
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g1smd
Staff
Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10438
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Posted: 2003-Oct-12 18:34
Automated scripts are banned by DMOZ. You stand a good chance that everything submitted through it, and all associated sites will be banned too.
Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /home/sites/website-applications/php/dsX/iSQL/drivers/mysql.inc on line 72
A Database Error Has Occurred, and has been reported to the administrator.
Too many connections
Link-ID == false, connect failed
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