Is multiple listing acceptable for a commercial site!

Hi There!

well is this acceptable that a site have so many listings, who wanted multiple listings for pages with client listings???

i searched by indiamart in DMOZ search returns 691 listing... and indiamart.com returns 687 listings.....

well indiamart is commercial site but is indiamart big enough that ODP has soo many listings!!!

well i have read that " Sites devoted to the sales and distribution of a single product should be avoided if they are affiliate sites or if the site is merely a distributor for a manufacturer already listed in the Directory."

how can this be possiable???

And even more sites for geocities, but as with indiamart most listings are not for indiamart/geocities but for companies/individuals who host their website there. We don't care where a company hosts a website - if it has unique content, we list it.

See for example http://www.indiamart.com/alisha/ (random choice from first page of search results) .

Of course there are a number of indiamart listings as well, because they gathered a lot of information for some topics - for example their travel guides. As we state in our guidelines, the editors choose which sites to deeplink, regarding the amount of unique content and the improvement a listing would mean to the category.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with whether the site is "commercial" or not. Indiamart is commercial, ibiblio.com (host of, e.g., Project Gutenberg) is not.

Nor does it really have anything to do with size. An electronic text of a significant published novel or monograph is not that large -- seldom as much as 1MB -- yet represents a distinct significant contribution to the sum of human knowledge and may well deserve a separate listing no matter what the main content of the site is. A huge site like amazon.com or walmart.com may have tens of thousands of products, and not have very many listings at all-- a tiny single-product craftsman may have his own listing.

The guideline is: one "company", one website, one listing. Anything beyond that is "exceptional", at editor discretion. Any kind of webmaster lobbying for extra listings will be (this is a promise, kept to the best of our ability!) counterproductive.

Well there is a vital difference in Indiamart type of sites and Geocities.
Former is commercial, planned and have great control over linking structure
Later is Free and rest missing.

Your concern about "business model" is misplaced. We're concerned about information flow.