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Second i think it's a tuff question, in the editor guidelines it's mentioned that you should only list a site more than 1 time if it offers truly unique content.
Then the question comes, what is unique content, and my answer is that it's pretty much up to the editor of each category to decide that.
So yes you can have 2 listings, i have sites which have more than 5 listings from one site.
I think it's very much a combination of content/editor view.
Also it's not spam if you submit your site to a relevant category, it might be denied, but just because of that it's not spam.
Hmm, it is a tough call, but if the separate subjects consisted of only one or two pages each then it may not get listed. However, if each subsite had a lot of unique content, then it may be listed. The whole site is more likely to receive one listing in the appropriate Regional (i.e. By Location) category, than it is to receive multiple listings in the Topical (i.e. By Subject) categories.
Most DMOZ editors will tell you only one listing, but at one time Bartelby.com had nearly 1000 listings. I think since they had a few complaints about it that it has been cut down considerably.
And encyklopedia.pl has over 48,000 - along with a dedicated category [dmoz.org].
[edited by: Laisha at 1:00 am (utc) on Nov. 22, 2002]
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However, I sell vacations in a particular area. The vast majority of my site deals with the vacation venues themselves. Part of my site (16 pages) offers individual maps of the individual islands within the area in which I sell those vacations.
There is a separate DMOZ category in which maps are listed for this territory. There are only two listings in the cat and the maps provided are pathetic. (Only one other site on the internet has this content and they are not listed in this category either.)
I have submitted the url: www.mysite.com/maps.html and have been ignored for about 8 months. Should I try again or drop the whole thing?
I have submitted the url: www.mysite.com/maps.html and have been ignored for about 8 months. Should I try again or drop the whole thing?
Unless you know that it has been deleted, go to resource-zone and ask if it is in the queue for whatever category you submitted to.
At least they will tell you today if its still in with a shout or not
They are so backlogged that it may well be that nobody has got round to reviewing it yet :(
[edited by: cornwall at 4:37 pm (utc) on Nov. 21, 2002]
There is no particular rhyme or reason why, say, one US state accepts a deep link page on widgets and another does not. The level of info I offer is the same throughout, but one editor will list it, and another will not.
And why is that? You tell me - I know that a passing meta will give us the "usual reasons" but us conspiracy theory people know otherwise :)
Maybe because different editors interperate the guidelines in different ways? I think it is important to remember that with DMOZ we are dealing with real people, not only do humans do it better but they do it differently to each other ;)
Maybe some cats are light on content, maybe some others already have ample listings of the same type of "stuff".
Maybe in some cases, and as you hinted at, the editor in question may be a competitor of yours. This may make it less likely that you will get a listing but by no means impossible. If you think that is the situation then research, whatever cat you submit to then you need to get to know the editor.
OTOH "I have a number of sites with 20 plus entries in DMOZ", I'd keep real quiet and well below the radar ;)
