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No URLs, please. Thanks. - Laisha
[edited by: Laisha at 5:15 pm (utc) on Aug. 10, 2002]
Having multiple clients with as many as 23 listings is quite reasonable.
Your site can be suited for many categories such as regional listing, and
if software (for example)
Reseller Software
Academic Software
Educational Software
Science Software
Demonstration Software
Download Software
Software Developer
Multimedia Design
and the list goes on.
A re-direct is not exceptable however the chance of acceptance is also remote (unless you are the editor).
[edited by: fathom at 4:53 pm (utc) on June 25, 2002]
Whether it is due to me or someone else, I keep getting new listings, some of which are f'ing annoying! Some with www and some without - screwing me up in a google a little..........
I have 4 listings just now, maybe when I reach 10 I'll *try* to contact a human about it.
brotherhood_of_LAN:
>> I keep getting new listings, some of which are f'ing annoying! Some with www and some without
here too, if you feel that some of the listings have an incorrect URL, fel free to stickymail me and I'll look into this.
Oh yes it is; Normally ONE listing in a Topical category, and ONE in a regional category; possibly NOT both.
Any *more* than that is *exceptional* or oversight (easier than you might think) or abuse.
Interestingly, many such abuses come to light when the spammer requests an update - then the duplicate listing becomes obvious, and deletions can be made instantly.
Obviously, if you are a national ecommerce site like Amazon, for instance, then you can't sneak a regional listing for every state in the union.
But two listings in different cats IN GENERAL is not necessarily unusual.
I guess if your a forum you don't have anything to do search engines, SEO, web design, or user interfaces.
I would think that multiple (exceptable) listings would give DMOZ users precisely what they are looking for, rather that searching in DMOZ so that they can search through another site since it is rare to find a site that really has only one topic.
But I could be wrong.
(I should mention that there are a number of pages geared for each specific country.)
I wouldn't say you should join the spammers but I would reconsider my methodology if I were you.
Nor do I accept irrelevant submissions, which are an alarming number of submissions- which I attribute to people not bothering to read the definition of my particular cat. Highly annoying.
what on earth r u talking about my rules and dont join them??...im asking if it ok!...my nearest competitor has cheated his way to the top of the search engine rankings and has cheated (i beleive) his way to multiple dmoz listings...ive kept quiet for a year because i figured he couldnt get away with it for that long...but he has!...so im asking if dmoz allows this sort of thing?...whats the your problem?...its not my rules that sets up 30 fake indexes with 50 links all pointing back to my own site...each index optimized for different keywords..then those words are repeated in hidden text..and in the alt tags of images....its my rules that allows him to use links from another for his entire content and still get that page listed as a standalone page at dmoz..or have multi domains in one cat all with the same contact details...i could go on but i dont see the point...i simply asked if its ok!!!!!!!.....did u have a bad christams santaclause?
I only said it sounds like someone broke your rules because you're speak with so much enthusiasm/pasion/fevor/etc.
At the end of the day, those guys/girls only end up making me look better.
It gets a little trickier if a site does have multiple truly major topics, say if the company makes both software and boats. I would guess that most editors would allow that. (Separating the domains might make most sense, of course.) The perennial questions are sites with lots of content areas. About.com is the biggest example, but there are other, somewhat similar sites that have garnered many listings.
Before you make a fuss about your competitor's DMOZ tactics, I'd suggest looking at the listings for reasonableness - has he really spammed the directory, or are there a handful of very appropriate listings for distinct topics/products? Also, do you know if your competitor is an editor of one or more of the categories? That can make a difference, too - he might be using editing rights to create these multiple listings.
There's a lot of judgment that goes into DMOZ editing. Say I own a site about camping (with an appropriate DMOZ listing), and put up a page of "10 tips for catching fish" - should that page be listed in Recreation - Outdoors - Fishing? Probably not... What if I create 5 pages of content? What about 20 pages of tips, a directory of 1,000 fishing locations, and 50 pages about fishing regulations in each U.S. state? At some point, I've got more fishing content than most of the people who DO have listings in the fishing category, and fairness both to me and to searchers would suggest that a DMOZ listing for the fishing content would make sense. It's drawing the line that's the hard part. (Similarly, what if I threw up 100 pages of public domain fishing info with the sole intent of spamming DMOZ and driving more people to my camping site? How many DMOZ editors would catch this?)
