Have we been banned? Hollyw oodFotofix.Com

Hollywood F otofix is the industry leader in photo restoration. We provide photo restoration service for thousands of independent mom and pop photo retailers, as well as several large chains. We are the industry leader. We are the preferred providers of photo restoration services to each of the main photo retailer buying groups.

We have sponsored "Historic Photo Restoration Day" in 10 states so far, and are working on it with several others.

At our website, we have content regarding how to preserve and protect photos damaged by the "usual suspects", coupons for use at any of our thousands of retail partners, a unique "dealer locator" to find the nearest photo restoration lab in your area.

Visitors to Shopping/Photography/Services/Restoration can find plenty of places that will help them order online, but just one which will help them find there nearest photo restoration provider no matter where they are.

We've been listed on DMOZ for years and years, and were recently removed. This coincided with a period of about 12 hours of scheduled downtime, this may be related to our removal.

We so appreciate DMOZ and the editors who keep this such an awesome resource. Can you tell us if we've been banned for any reason?

Assuming that it was because of the scheduled downtime, and not knowing a better way to contact our editor, I resubmitted the site as a way of letting him know the site is up and functioning.

Any help would be appreciated,

Austin Long
H ollywood F otofix
(888) FOTOFIX

Your site was not banned from the directory, just moved.

Because of the nature of your business - reselling your service to other businesses (b2b), the listing was moved from the shopping category to the business category: http://dmoz.org/Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Photography/Manufacturers/

If you feel that this is an inappropriate move, please use the update listing link from the http://dmoz.org/Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Photography/Manufacturers/ page.

Thanks

Thanks for your reply!

I've taken you up on the suggest to request an updated listing. Our website is geared towards the general public shopping for photo restoration, and really doesn't have anything of value for those looking for a manufacturer of photography products or services.

We provide service directly to the public as well as direct them to those in their area.

We've been listed in the shopping/services/photography/services/restoration category for years. We provide as much or more content for consumers as any of the other members of that category. Our aim is to promote photo restoration as an industry.

Thanks again,
Austin

It can't be listed in Shopping as you're not actually selling the service directly to consumers on the site (people have to do to dealers/retailers to get their pictures restored). While you might offer information for consumers, you're not selling directly to them on the site. Business (and perhaps Regional) is the only place the site *can* be listed.