Quality Control Feedback
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AMI Capital, Inc. http://www.dmoz.com/Business/Financial_Services/Mortgages/ http://www.amicapital.com Saturated category to have abusers listed
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Having been an editor for about 3 months I tried to log on today and was told my site was deactivated. eh? I know nobody here can give me information on why but I just want to express by bad feelings towards the DMOZ staff who decided upon this. After all I inherited a category which needed alot of work done to it, I spent quite alot of time going through it and editing it at best I could. To be chucked out like a piece of trash I think is very very unfair. Especially when you see some categories which are blatantly being abused. After a couple of months I went to the forum to get my category checked to see if was editing correctly, guess what? nobody replied. …
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Curlie - Games: Video Games: Puzzle sites with little information appearing on the Top level. I am not sure of the sites that could be listed under this top level category, but there are many sites, which dont deserve a listing in this top level. Comparing to a listing of the same level, Curlie - Games: Video Games: Puzzle: Downloads which looks clean of individual listings, this top level category is congested with many listings that belongs to lower levels. (I am not sure where to report this, but I dont think this post is for Hijacks, Dead Links & Inappropriate ODP Content Here ONLY). Most of the listing are old, and in a category without editors, it…
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In category http://dmoz.org/World/Rom%c3%a2n%c4%83/Computere/Internet/Design_%c5%9fi_dezvoltare_Web/G%c4%83zduire/ is editor "danieltoma" dt@webdev.ro Well he has allready at least one site to sell web hosting(and in this category), and looks like all my submissions(as concurent company to this category are putting probably "on-hold" for year 2099). I submited there few sites months ago, without any success or any response, is just not putting them. I don't have spam sites, are pure company and selling sites, ranked in Google and aproved by adsense and adwords. I tried to register them again after few months, no success at all. I don't have anything against this …
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Hello! I was looking through a relatively small section of the gambling category and discovered that the top listed site and the majority of others were simply affiliate marketing sites. I double checked the ODP guidelines and it says that if you ignore the affiliate marketing and there is still unique and non-copied useful content, then it should be included. The majority of these sites are made up entirely of affiliate marketing with little to no content, let alone unique content, and the category actually has an editor. Maybe he hasn't cleaned up the category because he hasn't gotten around to it, but I'm trying to figure out why these sites are in the ODP in the firs…
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Is Adult Web Design Company illigal? http://www.onlinewebsolutions.net/ in http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/O/ I hope it will help
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-------------------------------------------- In reference to http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Products_and_Services/Academic_Papers/Fee_Based/ -------------------------------------------- ODP example #1 EduPapers.net http://www.edupapers.net Notice the EXACT SAME fax number (413-410-1219) listed on each site: http://www.edupapers.net/contactus.html http://www.4termpapers.com/term-papers_contact.html http://www.bigpapers.com/contact.html NOTE: Do a search for "413-410-1219" on Google. -------------------------------------------- ODP example #2 Mega Essays http://www.megaessays.com An obvious mirror of the following sites: http://www.dir…
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The two last entries in the BSD category are invalid. The BSDs: Sophisticated, Powerful, and (Mostly) Free - Historical overview of the operating systems. [ExtremeTech] (September 26, 2002) ZDNet: Enterprise: BSD to leapfrog Linux? - BSD is gaining ground fast as publicity efforts and Apple's Mac OS X take off. (November 29, 2000) Nothing on either of the sites listed references BSD directly.
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Museum designers and Exhibition Designers - MET Studio museum and ... Category: Reference > Museums > ... > Exhibit Resources > Exhibit Design Offering services in masterplanning and concept development through to final installation. Includes... http://www.metstudio.com/ - Cached - Similar pages Museum designers and exhibit designers MET Studio Museum Design ... Category: Business > Construction and Maintenance > ... > Commercial International firm specialising in museum, exhibition, interior and visitor centre design. Based in... http://www.metstudio.co.uk/ - Cached - Similar pages Kind regards, DD
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Hi, I am waiting to be included on dmoz... I have checked all the site listed in a cat for the last 8 - 9months... I just noticed that one of the sites has had a re-design and a re-structure from what that Cat in dmoz is about... Plus this site is listed twice... what your advice ?
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I don't know if DMOZ cares about this or not, but the following site is using stolen copy on a cloaked page for their home page: International Inflatables - US manufacturer of inflatables, bouncy castles, moonwalks, slide inflatables and play structures. -- http://www.inter-inflatables.com/ Shopping: Entertainment: Party Supplies: Rentals: Inflatables (1) International Inflatables and Moonwalks - Leading US inflatables manufacturer of bouncy castles, moonwalks, slide inflatables, inflatable games and cold air play structures. -- http://www.inter-inflatables.com/ Regional: North America: United States: California: Localities: D: Desert Hot Springs: Business a…
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Can I ask, what are the specific rules for updating a site? I ask because a particular web page is being updated every two or three days, listed under my name for search purposes, but with the sole purpose of subjecting me and my work to ridicule and abuse. No changes are being made to the page, so how can it be updated every other day? The page deals with several names, of which I am just one, so there's no logical reason for it to be listed under my name. I'm the only one being abused, and the entry concerning me is in bold. I've written to ask for the abuse to be removed, with no helpful response. I've also complained to the ODP, but the page remains. If no…
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I was under the impression that you should only submit the homepage of a site. Is this correct. If so how is it that a site that I compete with is has several pages listed in the directory ? Please Advise
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Quick Question Who can I send of list of duplicates sites that have been listed in DMOZ?
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Hello dmoz, Take a look at a very good example of using a mouseover technique to fool search engines into high ranking. http://www.asiwebpage.com/hydrocarbon_analyzers_b.html rank #1 on google http://www.asiwebpage.com/hydrocarbon_analyzers_c.html rank #2 on google The technique uses a page (or pages) stuffed with key words as an entry point to a website that seach engines index and rank very highly. The page is indexed and when the visitor places his mouse on any part of the entry window or scroll bar the mouseover function redirects the visitor to the target website which could be "anything". This technique uses ascii escape sequence to mask the address of t…
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Is that still in use? There is a site proudly displaying the Cool Site Award - but they ahve no star in their catagory..........
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In the category: [category removed] The sites [sites removed] both appear in the category. These sites are run by the same company and sell similar items. One of the sites should be removed. Thanks
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http://dmoz.com/Sports/Baseball/Directories/ 1. Top20Baseball.com (click on any of the top 20 directory links and you get this message, "Couldn't connect to dmoz.org:80 : IO::Socket::INET: Connection refused." All this site has is baseball news that you can get from any other baseball site. Bad content, which goes against DMOZ rules.) 2. Superjoe's Baseball Homepage (All this page consists of is webrings from other sites. Half the pictures and links don't work. Bad content. DMOZ doesn't want bad content). 3. Pro Baseball Links and Websites (all this site consist of is links to all the professional teams. This is not unusuall content). 4. Paul's Baseball Link-…
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Hi Why hasnt anything happend? The abuse report key is: e63956f9b4a101f45f812a128ebe3598 this was my email to dmoz as well Hi I would like to point out that a firm is editing all categories under the below listing: [category deleted] They are only adding their clients. The company controlling these categories is called [company deleted] If you look in this category for examle: [category deleted] You will see that [listings deleted] all have [deleted] at the bottom of the website in this category alone Then look at the rest of the categories for [the area] in total there are nearly 1200 websites with [deleted] at the bottom (f…
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http://dmoz.com/Sports/Resources/Directories/ 1. ALeague Sports (none of the pages on this site work; which = bad content. This goes against the dmoz.com rules. Plus it wastes space). 2. 100hot Sports (this site is more then sports. It's a general search engine that should be listed under the search engine category. Same content as other sites I've seen listed under sports directories). 3. Searchsports (Should this site be listed under the sports shopping category, instead? I think so). 4. Sports, Health and Fitness Message Boards (This site belongs in the category of sports message boards). 5. Worldeasy (What does a traveling site have to do with sports?…
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I thought you might like to know that you have two sites in the same category that are operated by the same company. Please go here: http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Products_and_Services/Academic_Papers/Fee_Based/ "Genius Papers" (http://www.geniuspapers.com) has a page with the URL of https://www.snrinfo.com/geniuspapers/ . "MegaEssays" (http://www.megaessays.com) has a page with the URL of http://www.snrinfo.com/megaessays/ , which is indexed in Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snrinfo.com%2Fmegaessays%2F&btnG=Google+Search). Both of these sites are connected to the same company, although for "MegaEssays" t…
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My network of sites were once listed in DMOZ, and have since been removed. The reason I was given is that they are a network of sites (I operate local job boards in 24 cities). Our business model is very similar to craigslist, computerwork, and computerjobs (among others). These three networks seem to still have the majority of their sites listed. I use craigslist, and I think it's one of the best resources on the web, but if my site is being delisted due to its regional structure, it only seems fitting (and legal) to enforce the same guidelines toward our competitors. I suggest either delisting all sites with this structure, or better yet, abandoning this rule…
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Well, I'm back...my forums have gotten realy popular and I kind of slide away from here...anyways... Remember when I said I found a lot of sites that shoulden't be in the directory...well...I diden't find all of them, but I did happen to come accross some (sorry, coulden't find the abuse submission for catagorys so I am just posting here...sorry) NES Price Guide - Price guide for NES 8 bit systems. on http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Console_Platforms/Nintendo/NES/ --linsk to some porn site.. The NES Forums - Contains forums. on http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Console_Platforms/Nintendo/NES/ --links to some site completely unrelated to the specified …
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I received the following this afternoon. I suspect the 24-7 folk scraped addresses from the dmoz site submission status discussion (I just love it when people say "this isn't spam".... I'm curious to know if anyone else received it. If so, I'll report it to the appropriate ISPs. -------------------------- I noticed your message on DMOZ today, regarding your site submission status, and was just going to let you know if you are looking for exposure, you may also be interested in registering with http://www.24-7shoppingmall.com directory. I know it can take awhile to get listed with DMOZ. I think the 24-7shoppingmall.com directory is also a human edited dire…
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Two URLs, Very similar content. Acceptable by ODP?
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If a company has two different sites with almost identical content, would ODP accept both URLs? I noticed that both www.rival.on.ca and www.rivallift.com have been accept in ODP and both have been developed by the same company and are really selling the same stuff. Actually they own other domains such as http://www.rivaltransfersystems.com and http://www.rivalinventory.com/
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