Multiple Submissions and Updating URL

This is my first post. Thank you in advance for your replies.

I am writing from the Strategic Studies Institute. www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil

We recently changed our URL from www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi

I requested an update 3 weeks ago and haven't heard anything, so I requested again. Anyhow, as I was browsing the dmoz I noticed that we have a number of listings to actual publications and our competitors do as well. We didn't request any of these additional dmoz listings, so how did they get in the there?

Is this ok? Should I begin listing all of our publications? www.csis.org has hundreds of listings in the DMOZ doing the same thing.

We are a large site and have a nice home here: Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict: Strategy and Tactics

However, we do produce a lot having to do with many of the various categories as well.

I don't want to spam, but I also want to get the word out!

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Thank you for asking, because in doing so you saved everyone a lot of trouble.

First the URL update: If you have gone to the page where you are listed and submitted an update request, and the old site is either pointed to the new, dead, or contains somethign that indicates that there is a new URL -- then it will be reviewed at some point by an editor. If none of the three conditions re met, then the request will likely be tossed out since there would have been no way to verify that this was your actual intent.

As for the other links, those are what we call deep links. They are NOT something you can request, but are something that an editor can grant on the basis of excellent unique content. So please do not suggest them.

Hope this helps.

spectregunner said:

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Hope this helps.

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You're welcome!

Your post did help. I'll not request any additional links and hopefully my editor will add some more deep links.

Regarding the update. I did exactly as you said, before I requested on September 16 the old url was 301 redirected to the new URL, so it is legitimate. I read that it was supposed to be about two weeks, but now I see it can be up to two years. Hopefully the latter is not the case, but I'll not re-request again.

Update requests like this are generally dealt with more quickly than an initial site review.

You can send update requests for all listed sites that have moved to a new URL. So, it looks like you can send in 5.

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=carlisle.army.mil/ssi

It might also help to chop off any query string parameters that are not vital on the URL.

Almost 20 days later and nothing.

It wouldn't be so bad if it were just ODP, but so many sites out there use the ODP!

Is there something I can do to ensure that I actually have an editor?

Thanks.

No, you don't have to (and shouldn't) do anything else. We don't know who will review any given update request, since there are many people who can edit any category regardless of whether there is a named editor there or not. But somebody with the appropriate editing rights will get to your update request, and, as mentioned above, it's not unlikely that it will be sooner rather than later as update requests are a priority for many of us.

You should also be aware of the fact that there is no telling when any of the "downstream" data users will update their data from the ODP. We make fresh batches of the data available fairly often but many of them (Google for instance) don't seem to collect and use the fresh data more than a couple of times a year - there is nothing we can do to influence that though.

I certainly understand that you want the most current URL in the directory, but you really have done everything you can to ensure that. Thank you!