If there is unique content on the site, you need to put it up front.
I will tell you frankly, hotel directories are a scourge on the internet these days. There are what, less than 7000 hotels in Las Vegas, but more than seven MILLION Google hits for "Las Vegas Hotel". Sir, you are in the Distributed Spam business.
So what's good for the surfers? Less. Therefore your site will get one look, for one minute, MAYBE -- and within the first half of that minute you'd better be showing the editor some content that he can start checking for uniqueness on.
Some of those have more and better developers than you do, and they've spent much more than six months on their sites. In fact, some spammers have spent more time than that just disguising the source of the non-unique data they have.
But still, your site had better be better than 99.99% of all the other sites out there. Otherwise, surfers don't have time to waste at the site, and we don't have time to waste reviewing it. On to the next one. There are ten million other sites where that came from, and 99.99% of them CAN'T have anything unique about them.
But no matter how much time you burn, or how inefficiently you burn it: if you don't successfully achieve SOMETHING something that advances the ODP's goals (did I mention unique content yet), we aren't interested. It's that simple.
