Mobile Phone Insurance Submission

Hi
I have submitted my site http://www.3-mobile-insurance.co.uk in what i believe to be the right category (as i see my competitors in there) several months ago. I re-submitted 2 months ago having just completed a major overhaul of the site and its contents to offer hundreds more product (and i mean hundreds!). To date i still cannot get listed in the dmoz directory and am at a loss as to why.
I could not see an editor listed for the category and do know if i should re-submit or wait for another 2 months?
If anybody could offer any advice or let me know if they have had similar problems with this category i would be grateful. Or if the editor is reading this then please email me.
Thanks
Darren

If you would take the time to read the FAQ page, it will explain why "two months" is not a problem.

http://resource-zone.com/forum/faq.php?faq=odp#faq_faq_site_questions

However, if you read http://www.dmoz.org/add.html - you will see why repeated multiple agressive spam submissions is a problem. [I would not s0aya that is in fact you had made two submissions]

what next?

Thanks for the reply. I have read the FAQ's but i am certain that you can understand my frustration. Doing the job that you do, you must come across this many times.
I am sure that you do get "multiple agressive spam" but not from our company. We have been very conservative in following the submission guidelines (to my knowledge) and basically have put a huge effort into making our site both attractive, good contents and more interactive with the public. We have also started to make it w3c compliant and need to know what to do next to get the site listed with dmoz.
Look forward to your replies.
Darren

We don't KNOW which is "aggressive spam" until we've looked, so the presence of aggressive spam affects everyone.

There's no way, ever, to "get a site listed" with the ODP. It says so right in the submittal policy. "NO site is guaranteed a listing." And that means regardless of what you do.

What you can do is, make sure we can find the site (you've done, by suggesting it!), make sure someone who visits the site can easily find its unique content (which means, for a business, information about the business and the unique goods and services it uniquely offers), make sure the site either works for standard browsers without plugins, or tells visitors exactly what programs are needed (so an editor without the requisite proprietary stuff won't delete the site because it doesn't work).

All this will keep the site from not being listed. But it won't be listed until a volunteer decides to work in the appropriate category (and nobody except the individual volunteers control when that happens), and picks this site to review (after wading through an indeterminate amount of spam to get there!)

This doesn't provide for, or substitute for, immediate commercial site-promotional needs: you're still responsible for doing or hiring whatever promotion you feel the business needs.

dmoz is important

Hi
Thank you for that. As you are aware by reading these posts you will see that i have fulfilled my requirement and i fully understand about the "no guarantee" part but getting listed in the dmoz directory does help and plays its part in this wonderful www that we seem to live in now. If an editor could contact me or review my submission and advise me i would be most grateful.
Many Thanks
Darren

We no longer give site status checks and posting here will not result in an editor reviewing your site on demand. You've done all you can by suggesting your site.