Multiple submissions to DMOZ

[moltar]

My website has the following structure: www.widgets.com/find/Country_Name/Province_Name/City_Name/.

I submitted the main page to an appropriate category in DMOZ.

I was wondering if I could submit every city to the "regional" city category in DMOZ? Would I get banned? Deleted?

[mcavill]

I doubt you'd get listed in every regional category and IMHO it's probably not a good thing to submit to lots of regional categories. There usually has to be a really good reason for DMOZ to list deeplinks, i.e. providing extremely useful content - and whilst I don't know your site I would guess your most appropriate category listing would be in the widgets category.

[John_Caius]

Highly unlikely that you'd be listed in the regional categories if your content is all about widgets. You'd be eligible for one if you have a head office or something like that.

[motsa]

If it's the one in your profile, please don't submit it to all the different city categories. And I'll be honest with you here -- you're going to need to have a lot more content to get even the main URL listed since I see empty category after empty category all over the place.

If I were you, I'd consider removing the empty categories from view or at the least offer some kind of broad searching capability because browsing isn't very helpful when all you get are empty categories.

[worker]

Good luck with your submission.

I have tried to submit my site 3 or 4 times, and even though I found 25 dead sites listed (and offered to email them to a category editor) there hasn't been any update on the category I submitted to.

I don't understand how the submission process works at DMOZ, because it seems like someone would care if there were 25 dead links in a category with about 100 links listed.

[tombola]

If it's the one in your profile, please don't submit it to all the different city categories. And I'll be honest with you here -- you're going to need to have a lot more content to get even the main URL listed

Moltar: that's the reason why most users of Webmasterworld don't mention a site in their profile.

[John_Caius]

worker - the best place to post that information would be to the ODP public forum - there's no way of telling how active any particular category editor is, but there are plenty of senior editors who are keen to review listings in this kind of situation.

[moltar]

motsa: the category I've submitted it to, has not been updated for a long time. I've checked through resource forum, and was told that my website is waiting for approval with over 250 other websites. I also searched for "category name" as keywords on resource forum. I found out, that it took some websites over a year to get into that category. I am thinking that editor might have some commercial interest. By the time it will be turn for my site, I will have lots of content. :) Besides there are few very similar sites to mine that are listed in the same category for years and they have less content than mine. And my website was running for just 2 month.

worker: which category did you try to submit to?

tombola: please explain a little further. What is the problem?

[victor]

By the time it will be turn for my site, I will have lots of content. :)

Let's hope so for your sake.

On the other hand, if the category has been neglected for a while, it might get greenbusted tomorrow-- special samurai-trained editors swarm in and fix it.

The first thing they might do is scorch the earth -- delete all sites that have no hope of a listing. If you're mainly touting empty cats, that's you.

[tombola]

tombola: please explain a little further. What is the problem?

You wanted to ask a generic question about additional DMOZ listings, while your site is already listed in DMOZ, and you also admit that you have not added additional content on your pages.

If your site was NOT listed in your profile, there was no problem (for you): DMOZ editors would have given you a generic answer.
But now, motsa and other editors have already visited (reviewed?) your site and chances are they will remove your site from DMOZ.

If I were you, I would not wait till tomorrow to remove these "empty" pages ;-)

[moltar]

Well, I really don't have any empty pages. All those pages have some sort of content like links to subscription and stuff. I can't remove them because that is the way my site is built.

I have many on topic articles. Isn't that enough ;)?

[motsa]

You wanted to ask a generic question about additional DMOZ listings, while your site is already listed in DMOZ

To clarify, he never said that his main URL was already listed, just that it had been submitted.

[moltar]

And to correct myself, the category actually was updated few days ago.