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Also, if I submit each sub-category to Dmoz, then is there a possibility that my sub-categories will be included in the Open Directory? Each sub category will be like a new website in itself with a vast topic coverage. Will Yahoo allow the same?
Any replies would be a great help. Thanks.
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Don't count on DMOZ adding any of the sub categories. If you have seperate categories that justify their own site, then I'd suggest getting domains and public ip addresses for each of them.
I know that this sounds tedious, but dmoz is trying to edit the entire web by hand so just 1 listing will get on their list if any. Also, Yahoo's TOS state that you cannot list in their directory multiple pages from the same site if they are displaying the same data. Example: someone in geocities has a web store and so does someone else, these two pages could get listed in Yahoo's directory, but in your case I don't think this is applicable.
Also, you say that you have multiple index pages meaning that you have www.domain.com/subcategory/index.htm and /subcategory2/index.htm
As long as these pages are linked to from the main domain.com/index.htm in some way (not javascript) they will get indexed. I'm not sure that you want to do this without just making multiple sites. If you have enough content for each then just get the domains and setup multiple ip addresses for them.
Stick Mail me if you want some more info.
I wonder as my web server skillz aren't as good as they should be....can a person have 1 webserver, serving on multiple ip addresses (not virtual domain configuration) but requests for this ip address will result in responses from site a and requests on another ip address will result in responses from site b, etc.....
Please let me know if this is possible for apache, tomcat, whatever.....
Thanks in advance and good luck Niceguy.
Zuko
