Since we are starting out with a new year, thought this would be a great project for everybody to take part in.  Via the Lunarpages Blog, here is my own tutorial on how you can get your own web site listed in the DMOZ directory:

• How to Submit Your Site to DMOZ

Hope it comes in handy, and if anybody else has any input, questions, feedback or anything else - feel free to reply here!  We are all here to help each other out. 

Yeah, all very true - however they are still the "go to guys" when it comes to getting yourself listed in a directory, cause many of the big players use their information to create their own directories. 

Hello Friends.........

To submit a site to dmoz you need to follow these steps

1.Find the main page for DMOZ and note the section that allows you to submit a URL for consideration to be placed in the directory.

2.Read the requirements before you submit your site to DMOZ. There are numerous restrictions regarding the websites that DMOZ accepts. They don't accept sites that redirect you to another URL or multiple URL submissions.

3.Perform a search on DMOZ to make sure that the website is not already listed in the directory. If it is not found, you can continue with the submission process.

4.Choose the category that relates to your website. Find the category listings on the main page of DMOZ and pick the one that best applies to your site. Once you find the category that works for your website, click on the "Suggest URL" link once again.

5.Give all of the required information. You need the site's URL, a title and a description of the website. DMOZ also requests your email address to contact you about your submission, if necessary.

Thanks

Are they clearly different sites, for different audiences (B2B and B2C)? If so, and their content is distinctly different, why would they look cheesy and spammy (is spam and cheese anything like ham and cheese)? On the other hand, if they overlapped to a great extent in content and audience, that wouldn't look good. If you would have to put it into the same category as the existing B2C site, and you're concerned about overlap, perhaps you should ask DMOZ itself for guidance.

here's are the sites,
www.mortgagecorp.com and www.mimbroker.com
while any comparison of the 2 sites would clearly show they're targeted to different audiences and perform different functions... I can see how it'd be easy for and editor to see my decision to go with a consistent template design as "a duplicate site" (esp if the editor was lazy or power-mad) 

OMG! that "How to Bribe a DMOZ Editor" article is too much!!! it reads like somethin' outta "The Onion"! I aint forking over any dough an I sure as heck aint slappin a bunch of crappy link exchanges on my site! (btw - did ya get a load of the links that blogger had on the bottom of their page??? friggin class act!)