my site has gone

[HIPO]

Over the past 2 weeks dmoz have taken out two of my sites. They have been in the index for about 9/12 months and both receive good traffic.

Is this happening to anyone else? Do they strip their index down after a time? Should I re-submit?

Any advice appreciated.

[Mike_Mackin]

HIPO

First do a search at dmoz.org for yourdomain.com
It is possible that the site has been moved in a category consolidation or restructure.

[NFFC]

>dmoz have taken out two of my sites

Are they both related to each other?

[Mike_Mackin]

The site in your profile is a bit difficult to navigate and read in NS 4.7 with Flash

Did you get it past a Yahoo! editor?

[HIPO]

MM

I have checked for the domains and they haven't been moved.

NFFC

I had used two different url's for two different aspects of the company. Although you could access both parts from one-another, I wouldn't call them mirrored. I also put them in different CATS that related to the 2 parts.

[HIPO]

MIKE

Thanks for the crit, although that's not what I was asking for and yes we are in yahoo. This thread doesn't apply to my site but a clients.

[Mike_Mackin]

If you like, use StickyMail to send me the URLs

[HIPO]

Sorry Mike. Bit shy.

[Laisha]

It's a bit difficult to give advice with no information. :( I'm unable to, anyway.

[Boaz]

HIPO, can't help you specifically either.

Generally speaking though, if you either made some related submission recently, or there's a new editor in one of the categories where you're listed, that could explain things.

Mirrors are a no no in ODP. A new editor in a category is a fresh pair of eyes that may have noticed what others have missed. A new submission could have brought attention to your existing listings.

Please don't start arguing that what you do isn't exactly mirroring - as long as I don't know the URLs, I can't tell you what it is you're doing in the eyes of an ODP editor.

Hope this helps anyway.

[HIPO]

Thanks all for the responce. Is there any way in which I can ask the DMOZ editors to take out a sumbission with out drawing too much attention to myself.

[Boaz]

"Is there any way in which I can ask the DMOZ editors to take out a sumbission with out drawing too much attention to myself." Assuming that by "take out" you mean cancel (retract the submission) - not really, though it also depends what you call "too much attention". If you email an editor, then you obviously draw that specific editor's attention. Unless for some reason that editor decides to consult with other editors though (and that does happen), then you have attracted only that editor's attention.

By the way - can you access dmoz.org at this moment? For some reason I can't...

[rpking]

Can't get ODP here either. Been inaccessible for the past hour.

[Boaz]

Thanks, that's a relief. Apparently due to some tampering I did with my computer (or an undetectable virus), I've recently been unable to access a certain number of sites through my computer - no matter which ISP I used. I was afraid ODP has joined the list - this would have been the last straw.

[henki]

I have had problems with ODP for the past 48 hours. Just got in, but it seems to disapear now and then....

[nube]

my sites have disappeared also, i had on in las vegas for almost a year and someone removed it because i had link to hotel reservations booking site..never mind the content,,,imo i think some higher up editors who are in the same line of affiliate ship erase others due to competition...
i lost a new york site like this also...
any thought on this
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[rcjordan]

nube, 'editor-is-competitor' is a recurring problem in ODP, but it's also one that can only be corrected from within ODP. As always, the advice is to email an ODP editor higher up the chain of command. I know of several high-level ODP editors that work very hard to ferret out and correct this type of problem, so be very exacting in your email.

[Brett_Tabke]

One more time a little louder:

We are NOT the dmoz site listing help desk.

If you have a problem with a site listing, TAKE IT UP WITH DMOZ.

We have numerous editors here willing to offer guidance and advice on how to do that. Most dmoz editors and meta editors are more than willing to discuss problems with site listings in their categories - that is part what they do at the ODP.

If this is a question of not knowing who or how to contact the editor in your category or higher up, then that is a different question and we can certainly ask for an authoritative word from Dmoz on just how to do that.

[paynt]

I have recently started getting involved in the regional editing side of ODP. I think what might happen when you lose a regional listing is a new editor is jumping in and cleaning and organizing and adding and removing sites.

Each editor brings their own level of expertise and editing skills into their editing. Maybe a really clean, buy the book editor moved in and out you went. Or the editor can be learning, like me, what sorts of sites are acceptable. I was caught adding something that shouldn’t have been and learned from that and I think it can work both ways. I just try and stay in line with the guidelines and ask for and accept help from more experienced editors along the way.

As a submitter I would accept the regional listing you do get. The editors know where your site best belongs. If you have a site that's mostly links to other sites and affiliate stuff it's probably going to get booted.

Editors have to make choices. That's the purpose of editing, to choose where to list a site, if it's appropriate to list it. Don't look to the editor as the bad guy. They volunteer their time within a structure that channels their choices.

I think once people begin to understand the possibilities of their ODP placements they'll see you don't need a hundred listings in ODP to get it to work for you. It's where your legitimate listings take you from ODP is what is important and how you use and promote them from that side.