How many ODP listings are possible for a site

[kapow]

Until recently I thought a site could only have one listing in ODP. Now I read at WMW about sites with multiple ODP listings.

How many ODP listings is it possible to have? e.g.
- General
- Regional
- Special/unusual sub-categories within a site

[rafalk]

How many ODP listings is it possible to have?

If you have unique content the sky's the limit. For example, check out World/Polska/Leksykon/Encyklopedia/encyklopedia.pl/ [dmoz.org].

[NineLives]

If you have unique content the sky's the limit

...Unless it is a shopping site. Then the editors try to keep it to one listing. An exception is if you have widely disparate sets of items. You may then get a listing for each item type. Example: travel and jewelry.

[rafalk]

...Unless it is a shopping site.

You're absolutely right. Thanks for pointing that out.

[Brett_Tabke]

It all depends on if the site is worthy or not.

[JamesR]

Well developed subdirectories/topics that can be a site in and of themselves often get listed in their specific category. If it is a good resource, most editors will take it unless they are getting squemish about the number of listings a site already has. The most I have gotten for an old client's site is 9....looks like they have 22 now :)

[Nick_W]

Yes, I have 2 for my biz site, one onder web design and one under SEO

The SEO subsection is about 10-12 pages so I guess they consider that enough...

Nick

[kapow]

> It all depends on if the site is worthy or not.
> Well developed subdirectories/topics.

This seems like another angle on the overall planning for a website. I design many different sites, mostly commercial but some charities and other organisations. Now I'm thinking if a site is meant to be found then much thought should go into its potential subdirectories/topics. This would help people when they arrive at the site, will make it easier to get more ODP links - which leads to better PR, and is part of the theme approach that Google likes.

- Any advice / opinions on planning potential subdirectories/topics in a site?

- Considering what Google PR does to subdirectories (i.e. -1 point) does it matter to ODP if an additional website topic has a folder-url or a page-url?
e.g. www.widgets/history or www.widgets/history.htm

[Nick_W]

Well, I arrived at a viable if unimaginitive solution for the -1 PR dir thing.

On a site I did recently I made a page in the root called blue-widgets.html and a sub dir of /blue-widgets/

THe actual html page is of course the index for the dir. In the dir I put a header relocation in to point to the html in case people backtrack the url and get the Apache generated indez.

Let you know how it worked out after the next update ;)

Nick

[Quadrille]

Officially, you can have one listing for a site in the 'topical directory' and one in the Regional branch. (Some sites may not qualify for both, most will).

If your site is multilingual, it may qualify for extra placings in World.

All these will use the 'domain.com' URL, if at all possible. Submitting *any other* URL gives experienced editors the tip that you may be submitting multiple deeplinks, and there are ways of dealing with that, permanently.

Persistent offenders risk losing *all* listings (especially in Shopping and Business), or just one listing, quite likely in the lowest category you submitted to.

More than one URL being listed (subdomains, deeplinks) is *very*much*the*exception* - and, again, is MOST unlikely in Shopping or Business.

Yes, people do 'get away with it', for a while, as many editors are fairly inexperienced.

But they learn - and, quite rightly, they often resent submitters who play dirty. And that's an understatement.

Also, an experiened eitor may 'pop in' from time to time, and they'll spot a pattern of submissions, and can prevent any further abuse.

[bird]

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