Dear DMOZ Editors,
I'm posting an open question not to pan anyone, not to grind an ax, not to question the necessary editor structure of DMOZ; but purely out of frustration as a dedicated employee of a legitimate Internet services company that relies heavily on search engine placement and SEO for its income.
My company rebranded a few months ago and, though we followed the submission process, our URL has stayed at its legacy address, with a legacy description. Fine. It's 301'd; it's sub-optimal, but it works. (For SEO, it /sort of/ works.)
Then, without, I believe, any malicious intent, that same legacy listing was overwritten in a foreign language description (Polish). The path to correct this is so arcane, so obfuscated, so frustrating, as to make one lose all hope.
Despite submissions for a change through the standard procedure web form, nothing has happened over several months. I imagine that the presumably-Polish editor of the content category is either MIA or simply has no idea how to respond to a request that had to be written in English, via the Polish submission form, using a combination of Google Translator and the parallel English pages for interpretation from the submitter's end.
Are you kidding me?
We are a top-100 domain with millions of user sites and, frankly, this is terrible. The resources for such cases are all editor-oriented; contacting anyone specific requires editor authentication, etc etc.
Yes, I could register as an editor and, if accepted, build up some credibiility and--potentially--exert some influence over our listing. If I can be accepted as an editor for the Polish category in which our site currently resides. I do not speak Polish. Even if I did, this would not help me today, not tomorrow, not in the next several weeks at least.
I understand the need for these gateways; I understand that dmoz is an open, collaborative, non-profit effort, I understand that editors need to be protected. But there is no feedback loop here. There is no process. There is no hope. With Google, if one knows the rules, and follows the rules, one can exercise reasonable control over one's properties. With DMOZ, there is only Kafkaesque despair. This is not, I believe, in the mission statement.
Please let me know if you can help.
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I'm posting an open question not to pan anyone, not to grind an ax, not to question the necessary editor structure of DMOZ; but purely out of frustration as a dedicated employee of a legitimate Internet services company that relies heavily on search engine placement and SEO for its income.
My company rebranded a few months ago and, though we followed the submission process, our URL has stayed at its legacy address, with a legacy description. Fine. It's 301'd; it's sub-optimal, but it works. (For SEO, it /sort of/ works.)
Then, without, I believe, any malicious intent, that same legacy listing was overwritten in a foreign language description (Polish). The path to correct this is so arcane, so obfuscated, so frustrating, as to make one lose all hope.
Despite submissions for a change through the standard procedure web form, nothing has happened over several months. I imagine that the presumably-Polish editor of the content category is either MIA or simply has no idea how to respond to a request that had to be written in English, via the Polish submission form, using a combination of Google Translator and the parallel English pages for interpretation from the submitter's end.
Are you kidding me?
We are a top-100 domain with millions of user sites and, frankly, this is terrible. The resources for such cases are all editor-oriented; contacting anyone specific requires editor authentication, etc etc.
Yes, I could register as an editor and, if accepted, build up some credibiility and--potentially--exert some influence over our listing. If I can be accepted as an editor for the Polish category in which our site currently resides. I do not speak Polish. Even if I did, this would not help me today, not tomorrow, not in the next several weeks at least.
I understand the need for these gateways; I understand that dmoz is an open, collaborative, non-profit effort, I understand that editors need to be protected. But there is no feedback loop here. There is no process. There is no hope. With Google, if one knows the rules, and follows the rules, one can exercise reasonable control over one's properties. With DMOZ, there is only Kafkaesque despair. This is not, I believe, in the mission statement.
Please let me know if you can help.
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