Quality Control Feedback
You can report quality control issues and generic abuse reports with no mention of specific URLs, editors or categories here.
Issues with links can be reported directly in the directory (flag icon to the right of each listing) or in the forum thread below. Thanks :-)
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Hollywood F otofix is the industry leader in photo restoration. We provide photo restoration service for thousands of independent mom and pop photo retailers, as well as several large chains. We are the industry leader. We are the preferred providers of photo restoration services to each of the main photo retailer buying groups. We have sponsored "Historic Photo Restoration Day" in 10 states so far, and are working on it with several others. At our website, we have content regarding how to preserve and protect photos damaged by the "usual suspects", coupons for use at any of our thousands of retail partners, a unique "dealer locator" to find the nearest photo r…
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This is very weird. I'm not sure if we have a controlling editor in my category or not. In my search for more websites related to mine to exchange links I found a forum where a half dozen people or so who applied for an editor position in the http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Oregon/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/ category were griping because they were rejected with no explanation. So I thought I'd give it a shot. Within 24 hours I was instantly rejected with no explanation. I have to admit I do own a website related to that category called http://www.RealtyInOregon.com which may have been the reason why I was rejected due to possible biasness. …
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Do you think the following three lists point to the same site http://www.welist.com in ODP? 1. Welist.com - Listing of homes for sale by owner. http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/For_Sale_By_Owner/ 2. Welist - Alberta For Sale By Owner - FSBO listing service. http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Alberta/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/ 3. Saskatchewan homes for sale - Saskatchewan homes for sale by owner http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Saskatchewan/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/ I reported this duplicated list problem two times on Abuse Report Forum, but no action was taken, what shou…
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Does any editor in world/bosanski does anything, does any exsist, since I can't notice any change for very long time, and I don't believe that there is not submissions.
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Dear Masters, I noticed two things under one directory : http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Nevada/Localities/L/Las_Vegas/Business_and_Economy/Entertainment_Services/ 1) two websites looks like a mirror site (not 100% sure because one of them is look like only another link page of main website) which are Endless Music Entertainment Las Vegas Las Vegas Impersonators 2) under the same directory found this website deadlink (but maybe his server was down something I don't know) I'm not affiliated with anybody, just noticed it and letting you know. thank you
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Hello! I found this site - http://www.koolcelebrities.com listed in about 20 categories. Some of them are - http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/E/Electra,_Carmen/Image_Galleries/ http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/E-mail/E-greetings/Celebrities/ http://dmoz.org/Sports/Tennis/Players/Male/Agassi,_Andre/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/J/Judd,_Ashley/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/H/Hewitt,_Jennifer_Love/Image_Galleries/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/P/Peet,_Amanda/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/People/S/Smith,_Anna_Nicole/Image_Galleries/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/A/Aguilera,_Christina/Image_Galleries/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/Actors_and_Actr…
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Can somebody take this dead link out of the directory? All attempts to change the url failed, so please take it out.
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I was under the impression that your not suppose to have more then one listing............. I found This post today on a forum:DMOZ is NOt Open, it is BIASED and it led me to this site: DMOZ Top Listeds Domains How could these places have so many urls listed in DMOZ?
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http://www.dmoz.com/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/West_Yorkshire/Pudsey/ calverley.info - not in pudsey (maybe I'm being picky, it's about 10 minutes away by car) leighhouse.com - no site
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A competitor of mine has submitted HUNDREDS of geocities sites (all copy and paste type sites) into various categories of ODP (these sites are non commercial and have nothing to do with his line of business). After the submission has been accepted, he adds hundreds of spammy links at the bottom of these pages to his primary site. The links to his own primary site are completely off topic and are meant only for the spiders, namely Googlebot. These links from sites in ODP are giving him an unfair boost in the SE results. ODP's guidelines state "Don't submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links". Wouldn't these be considered affiliate links? Here is an example: ht…
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In this category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ Why are there websites and guides about hotels? Hotels should be in other category like: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Germany/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/ Hotels websites or guides are NOT travel guides I am trying to add my site: http://www.justgermany.org but it looks imposible here.
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Dear Editors, Currently we have our “Eagle Property Management, Inc.” site listed in the DMOZ at: http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Tennessee/Localities/P/Pigeon_Forge/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/ The URL (http://www.smokymountaincabinrentals.com/ ) of this listing in NOT owned by “Eagle Property Management, Inc.”, it is owned and controlled by a former contractor who is continually re-directing to competitive sites and dead linking it. We would like “Eagle Property Management, Inc.” to point to: http://www.1epm.com. I like to thank you in advance for any help in getting this listing changed, Eagle Property Management, Inc.
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One company/person behind two urls;) 1st URL - Ask4Host Category - http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/A/ AND http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Maharashtra/Localities/Akola/ 2nd URL - WebHostingInIndia.com Category - http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Web_Services/ If you see the both URL whois registrant contract "ASK4host.com"; person name is "Siddharth Deshmukh" and both sites contact email is same, siddhu_d@yahoo.com I would recommend you to remove one site from the cateogry. Thanks
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What if individuals not affilitated with a particular site submit that site not knowing that the site has already been submitted. For instance, say someone finds a great site about monkeys and submits it and does not realize that it is already on dmoz under a different catagory, etc. What protects the company from being considered a spammer when they have no control over the public? Thanks, Lori
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I have always been confused about what is considered spam on dmoz. For instance, I have noticed that many large celebrity resource sites are listed under every individual celebrity for a celebrities particular page on their website. I am under the impression that if your website has different pages for different celebrities (or anything for that matter) that you can submit that particular page to the specific catagory that it fits. So, it would not be spam for a large website to be listed under multiple catagories if that site has specific pages that fit into specific catagories and they submit the individual links to those specific pages? Also, what if that site has …
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Category: http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Universities/Graduate_Education/Business_Administration/ Website: http://www.mbastudent.com/ This company has a lot of listings in different categories...
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At http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/ category Pugmarks in India and same company in different name SEORank at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion/Search_Engine_Optimization_Firms/S/ category. Is this abusing?
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I reported a clear-cut case of abuse where the meta willfully and maliciously hurt the business interests of a company without justification. The meta manufactured wrongful and hateful accusations to aid her business interests with editors in the categories. Just a cursory view substantiates the situation. Quite clearly she was protecting editors in the categories who already had multiple domains and pages throughout DMOZ. After doing a thorough investigation to document the matter I submitted it to the public abuse system and received a tracking ID. Ten minutes later I decided to enter the tracking ID into the system. The response was matter resolved and we can’t giv…
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Quick: What the easiest way to make sure your site/company can keep a competitive edge online against competitors? Become the gatekeeper to your specific business category on DMOZ perhaps? Well that is exactly what has happened in one financial category here on DMOZ, which consititues a conflict of interest in my mind. Maybe its paranoia, maybe its not. It irks me to know that I am relying on a competitor in a very competitive market to allow my site to be included in a very important directory that is crucial to my business. I have already filed an abuse investigation request, but I wanted to make sure this is the type of thing that would be considered abuse. …
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Dear Editors, I would like to know why some reports are looked at while others receive no reply or attention. In addition, a friend of mine referred me to this forum and was told to take a look at several listings in the gambling category. I discovered the same things he discovered, so I would also like to know why your metas dont go ahead and do a proper cleanup. Sites in the gambling category change at a very rapid pace, so certain links have changed as well, in addition to certain sites having numerous deeplinks that don't quite fit the model of being exceptions to the rule because of special, unique content. This indicates that either the editors are 1) not awar…
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Scottish Christmas Cards - Holiday cards. Includes galleries, international shipping details and company biography. Scottish Christmas Cards - Christmas greetings cards and calendars with Scottish themes that can be over printed with personal or business messages including a company logo. http://www.dmoz.com/Shopping/Gifts/Stationery/Greeting_Cards/Christmas/ Is this allowed?
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http://www.geocities.com/dmglynn/ http://www.dmoz.com/Regional/Europe/Russia/Travel_and_Tourism/
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Just browsing through the following category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Thailand/Provinces/Phuket/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Guides_and_Directories/ and found 3 of the 6 listed sites are affiliate sites. 1. Phuket Hotels Online is an affiliate of planetholiday.com 2. Phuket Resorts is affiliated with hotelthailand.com 3. Phuket Stay is affiliated with yourrooms.com And if it matters, the first entry is a mirror of phuket-hotel.net Obviously, there are hundreds more just like these, but thought you'd like to know about some of them as they surely have little unique content.
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