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I anticipate my site will have more information about some of these towns than the sites that exist in the category for that town.
Would it be reasonable to apply to these catogories if this is the case?
It would not be listed in multiple cities/towns/locations. Submission to multiple categories is usually viewed as spam.
I am not sure about that: I see several sites that have a lot of deeplinks.
They state that the rule is "content": if you have sub-domains or sub-directories that have sufficient, quality, unique content to be sub-listed, you can try...
have a look at their guidelines:
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I am not sure about that:
I'm very sure about that :-).
Just submit your site to the lowest level regional category that contains all your localities. If the evaluating editor decides that additional deplinks would be appropriate, s/he'll make them.
I assure you that submitting to all your localities will merely cause you and ODP extra work and could well be counter-productive.
jimnoble
meta editor
> It would not be listed in multiple cities/towns/locations. Submission to multiple categories is usually viewed as spamI am not sure about that: I see several sites that have a lot of deeplinks.
The two statements are not inconsistent. My understanding is that generally, multiple deeplinks in DMOZ exist because the editors decided on their own that they are appropriate for the site in question. However, they do not want people to submit multiple deeplinks because such submissions very rarely turn out to be appropriate.
To put it another way: deeplinks are initiated internally by the DMOZ editors themselves, not externally by site owners.
