Clarification on what makes a site eligible for listing

Hello,

I have attempted to post our website twice in the past two years. Our organization is a well-established social group in San Diego that was established eight years ago and currently has 35,000 members. We are very well known in our city, and are the second largest organization of our kind in the nation. Our website receives over 30,000 visits per month from ~20,000 unique visitors.

We should be completely eligible based on all of the criteria listed in the guidelines, and I have been very specific in listing our organization under the correct category (sports organizations in the city of San Diego).

I would really like someone to explain the process by which a site is reviewed and included in the directory. What factors are considered in the evaluation process? We try to keep up with best practices, but perhaps our site has some content or code on it that is causing it to get pushed to the bottom of the pile. It would be nice to know if there are any "warning flags" that we might be triggering. It is also possible that one of our prior SEO firms has accidentally gotten us "banned", and if so, is there any way to rectify the situation?

Any insight into the approval process is very much appreciated.

Thank you.

Banning is reserved for those who seriously abuse our directory; two listing suggestions wouldn't trigger it. The more likely scenario is that no editor has yet evaluated your website.

You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.