http://www.gsapps.com/products/etlrunner

Submitted to: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Databases/Data_Warehousing/Extraction_and_Transformation/ though it could generally classify into:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Databases/Data_Warehousing/ also.

Our main domain has been accepted, but this one is a product, whereas the main domain gets classified only into 'data warehouse services' category. Hope this page is unique enough to be considered by itself.

No - your main site is listed in Data Warehousing and the description should mention your 2 products. You DO NOT submit your individual product pages to categories directly under data warehousing - your main page has links to your 2 products - there is no need for us to list the individual product pages directly underneath in the tree.

We are not going to index every page in your site or you site structure. We don't have enough manpower to do that for your site and all the others. Can you see what I am getting at here?

No - your main site is listed in Data Warehousing and the description should mention your 2 products. You DO NOT submit your individual product pages to categories directly under data warehousing - your main page has links to your 2 products - there is no need for us to list the individual product pages directly underneath in the tree.

We are not going to index every page in your site or you site structure. We don't have enough manpower to do that for your site and all the others. Can you see what I am getting at here?

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I totally understand what you are getting at. But is there an exception if one of our products has practically nothing to do with our main business - data warehousing? This product does have a lot of commonality with data warehousing, but the other product - GS DataGenerator has almost nothing to do with it. Would it be reasonable to expect that product to be listed under its appropriate category?

That is why I did not comment on that post. It is going to be up to editor discretion on that one, imho. They might list it, they might not. It depends on there assessment of the content. If it was a Games site I could tell you, but I don't edit enough in Computers to say.

>Would it be reasonable to expect that product to be listed under its appropriate category?

Not based on the submittal policies.

If you have two products, and only one of them belongs in "Data Warehousing", then perhaps the company itself needs to be listed in a more general category. If you had five products, and four of them were DW-related, then we'd list in "Data Warehousing" and perhaps mention in the description "also sells a fluid modeling system for blackstrap molasses flowing through a computer keyboard" (or whatever).

You help yourself best hy doing the best job of finding the one best category for the site.

>Would it be reasonable to expect that product to be listed under its appropriate category?

Not based on the submittal policies.

If you have two products, and only one of them belongs in "Data Warehousing", then perhaps the company itself needs to be listed in a more general category. If you had five products, and four of them were DW-related, then we'd list in "Data Warehousing" and perhaps mention in the description "also sells a fluid modeling system for blackstrap molasses flowing through a computer keyboard" (or whatever).

You help yourself best hy doing the best job of finding the one best category for the site.

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So right now, when I look for 'test data generator', some competitors who do only test data generator software work, show up at the top, but we don't.

I understand that you don't want to list each and every product that a company sells, but I hope the editors note that what we are selling as products is _very_ different from our _services_.

>So right now, when I look for 'test data generator', some competitors who do only test data generator software work, show up at the top, but we don't.

(1) We aren't running a search engine, we're a directory. The ODP search is not intended, designed, or equipped for general-public use in the manner you describe. And what OTHER search engines do is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to how we do things.

(2) If you have two products, a widget and a fabric, then (as someone once said) the description could legitimately mention that you sold "hand-enameled chiral widgets and machine-woven facsimiles of the Bayeaux tapestry". And in that case (not, as I say, that we care, and considering how few public users of the ODP search there are, not that you have any reason to care either), then searching for "Bayeaux tapestry" at dmoz.org search would in fact find your listing.

Your objection should not be a concern to you, any more than it is to us.