Lost a site

Have lost the listing for the following site-

http://www.adultlingerieuk.com Adult Lingerie UK

It was listed between Nov 2002 and Jan (or feb) 2003 in a sub cat below this one (didn't note down the exact cat)-

http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Clothing/

But now can't find it. A few weeks back I posted a new listing for a regional cat at-

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Clothing/Lingerie/

You can have two listings if ones regional right?

how do I go about checking what happened to the original listing and the status of the new one?

Thanks

It has been listed in the Adult part of the directory since before Nov 2002 - the cat is Adult: Shopping: Clothing: Lingerie: A (link not given on purpose since we are not in the Adult forum) - and deleted from unreviewed in the Regional cat you mentioned. As far as I can tell, it was never listed elsewhere <img src="/images/icons/smirk.gif" alt="" />

&gt;&gt;You can have two listings if ones regional right?&lt;&lt;

You may, possibly, have 2 listings, one in Topical, and 1 in Regional. However Adult is a seperate section from Topical. Sites that are listed in Adult are there because they are not listable in the General categories because of content (They cannot be listed in Adult and anywhere else)

Thanks for the info, I realise where I was going wrong now. I was trying to find the cat by browsing from http://dmoz.org/ to shopping etc... but there doesn't appear to be a link from there to the adult cats!!

I had to search for 'adult shopping dmoz' with Google to find my way to the adult section. Can you get to the adult sections from http://dmoz.org/?

Thanks again

David

The link to the Adult categories doesn't show up in dmoz main page. You have to type /Adult after the dmoz.org to see the whole treee. Also, there are no links to the Adult branch from non-Adult English categories.

Dmoz search results show Adult categories though, when you type in an "Adult" keyword.

Another thing that threw me was not being able to find our site via a search at dmoz main page. Try a search for "adult lingerie uk" (or company name) and you get no results.

Now try it after adding adult/ to the domain and you find our site.

Does this mean adult sites can only be found/searched if you are already in an adult cat?

Although I'm not really interested in the traffic from DMOZ (main interest is the benefit to our search results in Google), but doesn't this mean adult sites are hidden from the vast majority of surfers including those searching for adult sites?

David

&gt;Does this mean adult sites can only be found/searched if you are already in an adult cat?

Yes, or if you use a "recognizably adult" keyword, (neither ADULT nor LINGERIE are "RA", and I'm not sure anyone has published the ODP search's complete list of adult words -- porn, xxx, etc.)

&gt;Although I'm not really interested in the traffic from DMOZ (main interest is the benefit to our search results in Google), ...
Quite right you are in that.

...but doesn't this mean adult sites are hidden from the vast majority of surfers including those searching for adult sites?
No, because Google search has its own rules. They do know about the ODP adult categories, but what pagerank they give them is their own business.