Submitting 3 sites, one time each is no problem. Submitting the same site 3 times is really pushing it. Submitting the same site to more than one category, unless it's once in a Topical, and once in a Regional, just wastes our time and doesn't improve a site suggestions chances.
If the suggestion is misplaced, we don't just delete it, we'll send it to where it belongs,
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Submitting a site suggestion to the correct category is just very helpful to us. I would say that, at least, 50% of the site suggestions in the Regional section of the Directory are misplaced, so, we spend a lot of our time just moving sites to where they belong, for consideration by those editors.
As large as the Directory is, it's very understandable why it might be confusing for the public, and in many cases they submit to where they'd like to be listed, rather than where they have to be listed, like a large city, instead of where they are really located, in Tootsville,
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I don't think where you might get listed in the Directory really matters, unless you're actually searching in the Directory, because search engines take all of our data and use it in their own ways, I suspect. Search engines are off topic here, and not something we concern ourselves with, but where you're placed in the Directory is.
I think placement is only a concern for us, in our attempts to organize the Directory, and make everything mesh logically.
The Directory is a large spiderweb of links leading all over the place, but there is a logical system to it, and we spend a lot of time maintaining and improving those, so there are many different types of jobs for editors to do, and reviewing suggestions is just a minor part of that,
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