Please help! Dmoz Listing Delisted.

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Please help! Dmoz Listing Delisted.

Dmoz Listing Delisted

newsphinx

7:01 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

My homepage listing in DMOZ disappeared suddenly! :( I used to have about 52 listings in DMOZ. I did submit some of them, but most of them were not submitted by myself! I can not remember i did anything which can cause the delisting recently. I submitted another url www.mysite.com/abc/index.htm to a different category (not the category where my homepage was listed) in March or April and resumitted it on 3, June, 2003. My request did not get any response and I gived it up, never submitted to DMOZ again.
But now my homepage is gone! Can anybody give me advice?

Powdork

7:22 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yes, be happy with the 51 remaining listings.;)

newsphinx

7:45 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

I am not happy. :( My most important listing disappears! The Editors in Resource-zone indicate that my homepage was delisted because I have multi listings. But their guidelines show multi listings (they call it deeplinking) are ok and were surely approved by Dmoz Staff. But now, they are saying: "hey, you got too many listings. we have to remove your most important one." It also seems they are removing my another important listing, but keeps those listings I may never submitted myself.

Don't be just jealous about my multi listings. I need help desperately. :(

Powdork

7:59 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

You don't yet desperately need help. When you continue to make waves, it brings the rest of your listings up for review. When they are all gone, then you will be in a desperate situation. There will still be nothing you can do. Its just the way it is. The best advice is to diversify your backlinks and get traffic from sources that don't rely on the ODP. MSN traffic for example. Yahoo for example. Overture for example. Adwords for example.

steveb

8:12 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

"I need help desperately."

'We are not the ODP help desk.'

ukgimp

8:19 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

how the hell did you hget 51 listings. If that is for the same site I can get you wont get much sympathy. People round here have waited months/years to get in with just one!

creative craig

8:23 am on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Head to resource - zone, but remember:

When you continue to make waves, it brings the rest of your listings up for review.

Craig

kctipton

1:00 pm on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Most of the 51 listings are deeplinks added 2.5 years ago or more -- and, apparently, added by an ambitious editor or two on his/her own. The main URL, though, has been submitted to a number of high places (closely related categories) in the last few months... which probably led to the change(s) provoking this thread and the one at RZ.

Remember, no site is guaranteed a listing, and no listing is guaranteed a permanent home.

newsphinx

3:31 pm on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks your guys for your input.

Kctipton:
So is there anyway to try to get my homepage listing relisted again. Competition in my industry is really furious. If my google ranking drops dramatically, I would rather to give up those listings, which are information pages and do not generate income, in order to try to get my homepage relisted.

Powdork

6:23 pm on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm not certain exactly how interested the ODP will be in your Google referrals or site's income in general.:)

flicker

7:18 pm on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Newsphinx, if you go over to the Google forum on here, I'm sure people can tell you how to arrange your site so that you can distribute the high pagerank of your subpages back to the homepage, if that's what you want to do... it's not the ODP's job to futz that around for you, but I'm sure there are lots of helpful people around here who can tell you how to do it yourself.

hutcheson

8:14 pm on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

>I'm not certain exactly how interested the ODP will be in your Google referrals or site's income in general.:)

I'm VERY certain I know EXACTLY how interested it will be.

rfgdxm1

2:57 am on Sep 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

>I need help desperately. :(

OK. I'm at the point now that nothing surprises me at Webmasterworld anymore. Somebody is actually complaining that where they had 52 ODP listings before, because one was deleted and there are only 51 left they are in despair. Times are tough for webmasters today. To the point some have to suffer with a mere 51 listings.