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Were they just reviewing my site or is it suffice to say that they may be adding us?
If so, is it immediate or will it take awhile? I do not see it live on their site, based on this category, but again this appeared about noon today.
Any help would be most appreciated. Hopefully it will be added, but of course this could be wishful thinking on my part!
I submitted our site a few months back.
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Don't look at me like that! I'm wearing my tinfoil hat. And that's the most plausible ODP-related conspiracy theory I've heard all year...
I have a site that has lots of good orig info but i also run one adsense block on each page (not in a flashy or obtrusive way, just there thats all.
I don't know if this is a cardinal sin in DMOZ or not.
The way I see it is - include it if you like but adsense stays because DMOZ don't pay the bills.
I'll still come and bug DMOZ editors every 6 months until hell freezes over just in case.
The bar to listing is the absence (or relative paucity or obscurity) of "informational content" -- which in this context, might be described as "mere trivia, corroboratory detail of no value or relevance to the purpose of persuading the mark to part with his cash."
My experience is that people who have a mindset to focus on the ads, often can't keep from having that attitude dominate their ostensibly non-promotional writing. And _that_ IS a bar.
DMOZ - One never knows...
Competitor to DMOZ? This is a travel site so sort of doubt that...
Competitor to the editor's own site.
If you want to know the status of your submission (whether it has been reviewed and with which result), just ask. Open Directory editors run a public forum, for example for submission status requests.
Newly added sites first appear in editors.dmoz.org subdomain and after a few days they propagate to dmoz.org.
ODP servers are pretty loaded and propagation takes a few days.
You may have noticed that ODP search almost never works due to overload.
If you would have been added and show in editors subdomain.dmoz.org for now and not on dmoz.org the referal URL would look like this:
[editors.dmoz.org...]
Editors deleting competitors' sites without a good reason will be removed.
Although this false sense of hope will soothe some new to DMOZ, I think most of us know better. DMOZ does delete bad editors, but it is such a small percent.
I do not believe this.
I agree, most likely the site was accessed from the "unreviewed site" queue.
But that is not always a review for possible listing. In fact, I suspect that half of the time (or more) it is NOT a review for a listing.
But what would I know? I haven't even done 100,000 edits yet. Maybe should I should instead be pontificating about, um, how the new pope should organize the Holy Congregation. I'm not Catholic, so that would make me the obvious expert on THAT subject.
If you want to know the status of your submission (whether it has been reviewed and with which result), just ask. Open Directory editors run a public forum, for example for submission status requests.
You are only allowed to ask once every six months and I just asked one month ago (reply still waiting for review) so i still have to wait 5 months before i can ask again.
I suspect either
1. I was moved to a different category because I shot too high (pretty high)
2. I was in the middle of updating my site to a new look (which I explained in what's new) so they put me back on the shelf for a while
3. I was rejected (which i will find out in 5 months)
Hutchenson - thanks for the info. ie that adsense alone will not get you rejected. As long as the site is written for the user and not for the ads, I can understand that.
Through re*view* I understand that your site has been *view*ed by an editor. That would explain the referral URL.
If the referral URL was correct as I was saying... since that can be tricked easily, though don't see any reason for someone to do that.
I might have a different perception for the term "review".
If you are thinking "access" means "reviewed, and a decision made about listing", you're going to be out of touch with reality for most of your divinations, um, log analyses.
An "access" followed by "no visible listing within a week" is NOT necessarily (or even usually) a "rejection". There are way too many other possibilities to even guess. (For instance: most submittals are to the wrong category. At best, the first access is simply going to result in a move to a better category. Is that a rejection? No, it's progress! Is it a "review"? No, just a preliminary screening.)
We have enough paranoid ODP conspiracy theories ("my site was rejected because aliens control my competitor's computer") already, without allowing these innocuous logs to be falsely cited as evidence of rejection.
An "access" followed by "no visible listing within a week" is NOT necessarily (or even usually) a "rejection". There are way too many other possibilities to even guess. (For instance: most submittals are to the wrong category. At best, the first access is simply going to result in a move to a better category. Is that a rejection? No, it's progress! Is it a "review"? No, just a preliminary screening.)
