Ecommerce Content Site and Submission Difficulties

I have an ecommerce site that I have had difficulty getting listed in DMOZ. Within the site, I have several hundred articles about the business my site is in. I would like to do two things:

1) I would like to break out the content into its own site, with a root domain, and submit it.

2) Make either subdomains (widget.example.com) about each subject, and make sure each subdomain is unique and content rich and submit each subdomain to the appropriate category OR develop subpages on my main domain (www.example.com/widget) which is unique and content rich and submit those.

What is the best approach for me to take?

Thanks!!!

I would submit your whole site once to the category that most fits the business your site is in. Multiple deeplinks are highly unlikely to be listed if they're all about the same basic topic. If you have articles all about various aspects of motoring then your site should be listed once in a Motoring category, albeit perhaps quite a high category if the content is broad. If you have articles about motoring, bananas and George W Bush then you might get deeplinks listed in different places in the directory.

Multiple deeplinks are highly unlikely to be listed if they're all about the same basic topic.

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An example would be: the site is about sports, but I have articles about each different type of sport (lacrosse, football, volleyball, etc.) and want to break out the site into sub-domains or a folder structure that would be submittable. So there would be soccer.example.com or www.example.com/soccer, football.example.com or www.example.com/football, etc. with each deeplink being all about that subject.

The subjects I am working with are a bit more diverse that different sports, but it's generally the same idea.

Re: Ecommerce Content Site and Submission Difficul

Deeplinks are reviewed on their own merits. If they do indeed have deep original content of a high standard, then we'll consider them. Otherwise, we won't.

It would be difficult to make a judgement without seeing the deeplinks in question. You may wish to report back once you have some parts of the site reading and then we can tell you whether they would be suitable.

Re: Ecommerce Content Site and Submission Difficul

Using your example, we'd generally list the site once at the broader Sports level and not list all the subdomains separately in each of the sports. If you're planning on splitting up your content like that and the content deals with multiple aspects of the same general topic (like your Sports example), I'd make sure that you offer a main starting point to reach all of the subsites as you're very likely to only get one listing.