My site disappeared from DMOZ and Google - Please help me!

My site www.cruisedeals.com has all the sudden be taken out of DMOZ and of course Google as well. I think I know why. I owned another business website called www.traveltots.com and the business recently closed. Instead of shutting down the website I forwarded the traffic to my existing business www.cruisedeals.com. In reading some of the threads I see that may be of some issue for DMOZ. I'm not the most tech guy, so I don't understand why. I did however disable the forward tonight. How can I get my site www.cruisedeals.com back on DMOZ and Google?

This is my family's livelihood. I need the site back in the search engine asap. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

John Keen
CruiseDeals.com
jkeen@cruisedeals.com

OK, three issues here, and they are all separate.

Google the Search Engine, we have nothing to do with. They apparently spider dmoz.org (as they do scores of millions of other sites): but their rankings, their bans, their relevance measures, their bad neighborhoods -- all the hundreds of details that go into their search results -- are their responsibility alone. We have no control, no knowledge, no responsibility, no interest.

The Google Directory is a copy of the ODP. A site in the ODP will -- eventually -- be listed there (and many other places). Your site is listed in http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/S...s/North_America/United_States/North_Carolina/ (having moved there as a result of a recent review/cleanup/subcategorization). In addition, it may be eligible for a listing in your local community -- feel free to hunt out the most specific relevant subcategory of its Business and Economy category (somewhere under the most specific locality in Regional/N.A./U.S./N.C./Localities/) and suggest it there.

Finally, your own website promotion. That's going to have to be your own business. In the long run, the ODP is a zero-sum game for webmasters: we'll promote all of your competitors just as much as we promote you! And on the net (as opposed to in your locality) you will have LOTS of competitors! So an ODP listing simply cannot substitute for the traditional advertising, promotioning, marketroiding, etc., business practices. And here -- you're the expert (comparatively, even if not absolutely) and we're not.