http://www.templatestore.com

Hi
I submitted my website http://www.templatestore.com
to:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Web/Templates/
about 3-4 months ago.

As it seems that it never got listed/indexed I have
now submitted again 15th of august.

My question is how long will it take as I got a message
that it was placed to some special area due to something
with IP.

Should I resubmit or not?.

Thank you!!

Regards,
Sami

The site suggestion was received but was temporarily delayed by our spam filters. (This doesn't mean it was spam.)

The "Computers" subscreen of the spam filters has gotten a bit backlogged. Check back in a month and if nothing has happened I'll bite the grindstone, bullet in the shoulder, etc., etc., and wade in there.

No, please don't resubmit. Your latest submission is making it's way down to the proper subcategory.

I don't see any evidence that your first submission was recieved at all, but the second one is progressing properly.

Ok thanks for your info I will be waiting to get it listed.. just wanted to be sure not to resubmit and
be considered a pain in the a** ... as the first time
I was not sure if it went through and seems it did not
so my 3-4 month waiting was not needed... well now I know
everything is correct so I will wait.... thanks

Regards,
Sami

You are just an affiliate/reseller for http://www.template-help.com/ and as such won't be listed.

Hi
Template-help.com ??... have a better look!
Anyway if this is ODP policy I suggest you check
all the websites listed in:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Web/Templates/
and many other web template categories and take out
major part of the listings there as they have affiliate
deals aswell.

Regards,
Sami

We do not list sites that are affiliated with other sites.
We do list sites that offer affiliate membership to other sites.
As Template-help.com only has a message "comming soon" on the site I don't understand why and how Motsa noticed your are an affiliate of this site. Maybe he can give some more information.

<EDIT>
Ok, I already see why you are marked as an affiliate. Even for me as an editor not working in this field it was simple to find why you are marked as an affiliate.

[EDIT: Changed after further investigation]

I have to agree to motsa, totally right. If you don't think, that the domain he named is involved in the affiliate marketing scheme, you should examine your own site closer. We don't say its necessary the main site of the scheme, but at least some of the content is stored there.

Anyway we don't hand out information about our work and how we detect affiliate sites. I just checked and got to the conclusion that this is an affiliate site, and quite an easy one to spot.

If you have specifics about other sites, contact me or any person labelled as "Meta" in this forum directly with details and we will look into it.

Windharp

I did not say that I am not a reseller.... just pointed out that the other meta said template-help.com which was not correct. If you dont list my website thats up to you or your fellow editor in that category to decide.

I must say that after the first msg I looked around dmoz.org the first time and its full of websites that are
affiliates of other companies and I am not talking about webtemplates.

Makes you wonder how some websites with several domain names and affiliate deals keep "rocking" in the categories.

If I am not added I will accept that and wont be telling about other sites listed to get them out.... not jealous person and if your policy is that thats fine with me....

Regards,
Sami

Well, template-help.com is a subsite of Template Monster but, yes, it would be more accurate to say you're an affiliate of Template Monster (or, even more accurately, of Inverse Logic). Thanks for nitpicking.

Regarding not naming other affiliates that are listed, well, that's up to you but you shouldn't complain about inconsistency if you're not willing to help by pointing out specific cases. We're only human and sometimes sites that shouldn't be listed slip in.

Just one more question.... are there any guidelines when a website is considered as a good content website even if it has affiliate programs running in its website?.

Just would like to know for future development projects to make websites that qualify to dmoz.or. or are all the websites that run affiliates programs disqualified straight away?

Regards,
Sami

We ask if the primary purpose of the site is to drive commercial traffic to another site (this would include doorways, affiliates, MLM representatives, vanity-alias-URLs, blind lead generators, many ad-banner-farms, etc.)

If the answer is "yes", we aren't interested.

Roughly speaking, there needs to be a solid core of unique content, that is arguably useful if all the ad-promo stuff is ignored (if, that is, it can be ignored). It is our experience that people who set out to create affiliate sites generally will end up with what we call affiliate sites.

You can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, perhaps, but trying to turn an affiliate site into a listable one is more like grafting a silk purse onto an angry boar's skull. It is almost futile to hope for mere peremptory rejection without physical violence.

hutcheson I enjoy reading your responses if just for some of your statements 'You can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, perhaps, but trying to turn an affiliate site into a listable one is more like grafting a silk purse onto an angry boar's skull. It is almost futile to hope for mere peremptory rejection without physical violence.

Now I'm going to remember that one if I ever become an editor