Can someone please explain?

I know this is not a "submission status" forum... But I submitted my site several months ago and I just don't know where else to go to find out what the status is ... I looked all over the DMOZ site and there's no place to check the status or anything. How do I know that some editor didn't accidentally delete my entry and then I'm sitting here, hopelessly waiting for months? There's gotta be a better method than this ...

My site is:

www.rentspeed.com

I believe the site was submitted to:

http://www.dmoz.com/Business/Real_Estate/Residential/Rentals/

.. submitted in March ... Once again, I know this isn't a submission status forum, but if someone can answer my questions about where to go and what to do, that would be great ... I don't know if I should resubmit at this point or not.. please help.

Check the FAQ linked at the top of this forum, everything you need to know about your submission is in there.

>How do I know that some editor didn't accidentally delete my entry and then I'm sitting here, hopelessly waiting for months? There's gotta be a better method than this ...

You don't. But that's not the way to bet. In my experience, 99+% of submittal deletions are on purpose.

"Better" in our universe means "finding more efficient comprehensive ways to find good sites." NOT "finding less efficient ways of looking at the same bad sites over and over again." Because, if we find enough different comprehensive ways of finding good sites, every good site will be found multiple times (and then, the first mistake can be rectified.)

So, at this stage of the project, editors tend to focus on sites that haven't yet had submittals deleted -- and that's obviously the rational approach: the payoff (in terms of value for our customers) is an order of magnitude (or more!) higher that way, than it could be with any possible approach based on abandoning new work to systematically double-check an aspect of old work that was generally done very very well.

Little more effort required

Sometimes your listing appears in a category that is too general , maybe you need to place your site into an extra specified category, resubmit it once again with more descriptive title & description paragraph.


Monia Hassan

No, do not follow that advice!

If a listing is in the wrong category (in your opinion), you should go to the category it is already in, and submit an "Update URL" request, explaining how a more specific category fits better.

The bit about "more descriptive title" is particularly misleading. Titles are not supposed to be descriptive, they're pretty much supposed to be the company name if applicable, website title if not.

The bit about "more descriptive description" is doubly misleading. In general, what is "more descriptive" to the webmaster is "keyword stuffed all the way to teh moon" to a surfer. So probably, just skip that part.

And secondly, if you suggest an inappropriate description (which in practice means, if you're one of about 99.99% of the population), then the update request is likely to be deleted out of hand as the spam it is -- and OTHER changes (like different categories) might be overlooked.

None of this applies to the particular case in hand, so I'm not sure why the suggestion was posted here. But ... any venue to correct misunderstandings.