How Come Someone Can have 3 listings for the same URL?

Monte · Jul 16, 2004

I found this site that has 3 listings for the same url www.6smarketing.com

Please explain. Thank you.

andysands · Jul 16, 2004

Explain what exactly?

You made a statement, you didn't ask a question.

Monte · Jul 16, 2004

That is a question! How Can Someone Have 3 links with the same url on DMOZ?

sorry I wasn't clear enough.

andysands · Jul 16, 2004

There are lots of sites with multiple listings in dmoz.

Try searching for microsoft.com.

Further reading on similar topic:

http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3486

Lissa's post captures most of the possible reasons for multiple listings, so I will quote it here for clarity:

The short answer is that the guidelines are not hard and fast rules, and editor discretion developed with time and experience is what drives listing decisions. In other words, there is no such thing as "the only way".

The long answer is that there are many reasons why a particular site could have multiple listings, many of which have been discussed on this forum repeatedly. Some of these include:

- evolving guidelines
- evolving category structure
- categories being reorganized
- a site fitting two or more specific topics well
- editor finding a better fit for a site, but didn't have permissions to remove it from the previous location.
- a site accidentally getting listed under different urls in different categories, then an editor fixes one of the listings (either correcting a redirect or fixing a dead url)
- a site being so darned good that we want to list it in multiple locations

If there is a specific example that you think is inappropriate, post it in the abuse forum thread.

As a submitter you need to know that you can only submit a site:

- To the single most appropriate category.
- An additional submission to a regional category is permitted where the site meets the regional guidelines.
- One further additional submission is permitted for each non-English language that the site has content for. (NOTE: Machine translations are not acceptable for this purpose and will not be listed.)

HTH

Andy

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Further thread on same area with some useful information:

http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3370

motsa · Jul 16, 2004

It has one topical listing, which is appropriate, and one Regional listing, which is also appropriate. The third listing, a deeplink to someone's resume, is also appropriate for the Resume category it's listed in.

How Come Someone Can have 3 listings for the same URL?

Monte

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