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update listing

[fashezee]

I submitted a request to have my site listed in a different catergory. It's
been a month and a half but I have not gotten a response? How long does
it usually take to have a change done to your listing?

Is there a way of speeding up the process?

[korkus2000]

Does your catagory have an editor?

[Mike_Mackin]

8/4/2002
Published in Computers/Graphics/Web/Banners

[fashezee]

Yes. I have emailed the editor with my request.

I am currently in the directory called Banners. Our services are better
described under the directory: Logo and Stationary.

Should I email again?

Edited to remove ODP editor's name out.

[edited by: Laisha at 12:30 pm (utc) on Aug. 30, 2002]

[korkus2000]

I would write a very polite and professional follow up letter. I would wait to move up an editor because it might cause animosity.

[skibum]

Unless the same editor has access to both categories, a change in category may end up moving a site from being listed to awaiting unreviewed (and not publicly viewable) in the other categoty. One editor may try to contact another and not move the site until they an confim it would get listed in the other category so that you don't lose your listing for a while.

One would assume that editors respond more often to each other than it seems they do to submitters on the boards but ya never know.

Anyway, changing categories is probably one of the things based more on luck than anything else. If a top level editor (or one listed in both cats) gets the request and can make the move, the chances are much better that it will happen quickly than if 2 different editors must process it.

[Quadrille]

If the editor disagrees with you, your site may well stay as it is. I often get requests to move sites , but the majority are because the site (usually wrongly) thinks the new category is higher=better.

Decisions are based on content - not title, your description or perceived marketability of a particular category.

If the editor agrees (and your site is not already listed elsewhere), it will get done - but, as suggested above, it'll be in the queue like the new sites.

Point of interest, I also often see site submissions that are perfect for the category - but already listed elsewhere. If the listing is *very* inappropriate, I'll drop a note to that editor (rarely - as I don't usually get a response); but if it's 'reasonable' I'll bow to their judgement - and not duplicate. So getting the cat right is worth the effort.

[g1smd]

You said that the cat is Logo and Stationary .

Can you supply the full path, so that I can also check whether the category editor has spelt stationery wrong and put in a change request if so.

[fashezee]

My site is currently listed in:
[dmoz.org...]

But we do not provide banners. Our employee made an error when submitting our site. We provide Corporate Identity solutions. We should listed under:

[dmoz.org...]

It's taking forever to make the change...