Getting listed in DMOZ

The Open Directory is the biggest human edited directory and is also the most important. Although it is not without its issues, it is very important to get your site listed there as so many other directories "feed" off it. If you are thinking of submitting to DMOZ then you need to bear a number of things in mind: It is human edited, so your link has to be accepted by someone before it will appear. The editors are all volunteers who edit the directory in their free time, so you should be patient. There's a very nice article that sums it all up here