flicker - 1:32 am on Oct 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

Also, there's no reason not to submit a commercial website. If it's the homepage of a business that provides unique services (i.e. not an advertisement for or affiliate of a different business) and does not already have a listing under a different URL, then it is valuable to the ODP in and of itself. There's no need to try and hide it behind a bunch of free articles about your own services.

But yeah, you did make a mistake submitting each subpage of your site to dozens of different categories when you are already well aware that the subject of each of them is your own business. You should have submitted your homepage to the category most appropriate for it. If it's a brick-and-mortar business it's OK to submit it to the town you're located in in the Regional tree, too. But submitting each page of your website to a directory separately is definitely spamming. If your site is a museum and you've only submitted six subsections, then directory editors may be more inclined to let it slide, but if you submit dozens of deeplinks from a site about your own business services, most directories are going to start banning your submissions as spam.

Live and learn...