flicker - 3:00 pm on Oct 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

Oh, we do consider multiple listings for each site we review. That's part of why we have the submission guideline we do, requesting webmasters to submit each site only once: we consider deeplinking at the editor level. If you submit www.mysiteaboutmarsupials.com, then the editor who reviews it will decide whether the wombat and kangaroo subsections are really content-rich enough for separate listings. But if you go submitting all 800 pages of your site to every applicable category you can find, it's spamming and wastes the editors' time. I suspect that this is true not only of the ODP, but of every credible directory and, in fact, of non-directory websites you request a link from. Which do you think is more likely to have a positive result, sending an email to a webmaster requesting that they link to the one most appropriate URL of yours, or sending a five-page email screed requesting that they link to each of 250 webpages of yours from each of the crosstabbed 250 webpages of their own? :-)

If you really think your website is a great resource for multiple deeplinking, I'd recommend submitting the main URL and adding a bracketed note after the description saying something like [Please consider deeplinking the sections on individual marsupials.] This is more likely to actually have a result for serious news, academic, educational, and other informational sites, though. We almost never deeplink commercial sites. Like I said above, if we were going to start doing that--well, we'd be so busy deeplinking millions and millions of Amazon.com user reviews, we'd never ever have time to list a small business at all, you know?