Missing editor?

Hi,
I was trying to send a message to a category editor (tedgarg), but upon submitting it returns "no such editor".

My message follows; hopefully, someone in the appropriate category can get back to me:

My company is trying to find a suitable category for our URL; however, the most appropriate category we could find does not have a "suggest URL" link.

We create Real Estate web sites as a licensee of the MLSNI (Multiple Listing Service of Northern Illinois). Logically, we would be in the same category:
http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Illinois/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/

Please let me know what we should do, or if there is some more appropriate category that I can't seem to find.

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Thanks,
-Matt

Always submit to the Locality where the office is.

If that rule doesn't fit your case, submit as close as you can, and the editors will find the right category. (We do that for all sites, no need to make a special request.)

Thanks and more questions

Thanks for the reply, Hutcheson, but I'm curious as to how we could get into that category specifically. It really doesn't make sense for us to list where the office is, because we are one of few MLSNI licensees (serving all of Northern Illinois) and it makes sense that we'd be positioned in conjunction with them. People (Realtors) aren't going to look in specific locales for our service -- especially when they may be hundreds of miles away.

Thanks,
-Matt

Web designers, like most other businesses, generally get listed in Regional where they are physically located. It doesn't matter what your coverage area is.

but I'm curious as to how we could get into that category specifically

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Only an editor can make the decision to place the site into that category for review.

It really doesn't make sense for us to list where the office is

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So sayeth all real estate businesses. But all are treated equally and virtually all are listed where the office is. The alternative is chaos and that don't make sense from our perspective. Maybe 1% of single office sites fall into an exceptional case, and an editor will decide whether that includes you when the site is reviewed in the category for where the office is located. The other time when a site would be listed at state level is when there are multiple physical branches scattered around a state such that they won't fit into a lower geographical division.

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Okay, so accepting that we must list in a locality, under which category should I submit?

It doesn't really make sense for us to list as a web-related business (designer, hoster, etc.) because our only offering is the specific MLSNI search engine and only available to Realtors.

It also doesn't make sense to file us under a regional Real Estate category, since we don't really compete with the brokers and real estate agents listed there.

-Matt

I can't see where you've given us the site's URL so I can only advise generally.

Submit to your locality category (or an appropriate subcategory if one exists). Do not submit to an adjacent locality, county or wider area on the grounds that it already has a perfect subcategory for you.

If your locality is a large one, it may well have a Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet subcategory. If so, submit within there.