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i got an email from an editor last night requesting information on my primary business address after i submitted my url

is that comon practice if listing in regional category

Cheers

pasho said:

Hi

i got an email from an editor last night requesting information on my primary business address after i submitted my url

is that comon practice if listing in regional category

Cheers

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And in which regional category would the editor put the site, if he didn't know where the business was?

All the same, if the information isn't on the site it can't be listed in Regional - editors shouldn't use information from other sources than the site itself.

That doesn't mean the editor did anything wrong, but I wouldn't say it's the usual thing to do.

Just my opinion - Could have been a professional courtesy and verification which seems to simply be the work of a diligent editor. IMO - sounds more like going the extra mile versus stepping over the line.

>IMO - sounds more like going the extra mile versus stepping over the line.

No argument there.

The important point (and you'll see a few posts about this in the archived submittal status forum--it's probably one of the most common reparable faults), is that it's not enough to get the address from some other source (as editors may be tempted to do). The right thing to do is get the webmaster to put the address on the website, so the next editor to come through doesn't delete the site for not being geographically relevant (and, of course, for the benefit of the surfer looking for local businesses.)

No, it is not considered going over the line, because there is no line.

Experience has shown that contacting submitters is, more often than not, a terrible mistake. Mail bombs, physical and legal threats, stalkings, etc. are all things that editors have experienced.

Not to say that we do not contact submitters, I've even been stupid enough to call some when it was a simple matter of trying to verify if someone actually had a storefront -- and have learned not to do that again.

It is also, counterproductive from this perspective. If I were to send you an e-mail telling you that I just listed the site, I've:

-- suggested that we are some sort of listing service
-- made public which editor edits which site, which is no one's business
-- suggested to you that if you don't like the title/description/category, then you know who to go complain to/about.

Bad, bad, idea because there is nothing but downside for me. Contacting you does nothing to make me a better editor, or more productive. It only makes me more vulnerable to abuse or attempted bribery. Not good at all.

hutcheson said:

>IMO - sounds more like going the extra mile versus stepping over the line.

No argument there.

The important point (and you'll see a few posts about this in the archived submittal status forum--it's probably one of the most common reparable faults), is that it's not enough to get the address from some other source (as editors may be tempted to do). The right thing to do is get the webmaster to put the address on the website, so the next editor to come through doesn't delete the site for not being geographically relevant (and, of course, for the benefit of the surfer looking for local businesses.)

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Is it possible the information was there and the editor had a gut feeling or possible knowledge that the submission may still be bogus, yet wanted to make sure versus arbitrarily rejecting?

spectregunner makes some good, and scary, points - I was just trying to be an optimist, I guess; spectregunner has cause to be more of a realist though

Yet, I still, occasionally send a webmaster a note telling them that I have declined their submission because they do not have an address on the site, and if in the future the add one, they are welcome to resubmit.

Even that earns some nasty replies.

>Is it possible the information was there and the editor had a gut feeling or possible knowledge that the submission may still be bogus, yet wanted to make sure versus arbitrarily rejecting?

Yes, this can happen also -- and we do catch some bogus addresses.

typo

hutcheson said:

Yes, this can happen also -- and we do catch some bogus addresses.

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Some?? I'm guessing you're being polite or maybe more folks are wise enough to not try it; further, I'm guessing that your (editors) collective "some"s equate to quite a sum

Oh, stuff slips through, certainly. But the more eyes on it, the better the results. We've caught stuff that got past the Yahoo! professionals (and, no doubt, vice versa, although that's hard to tell.)