My site dropped

I was listed for about a year and was dropped. I resubmitted got back on ,but was dropped again. I own a brick and mortar retail store and tried to get relisted in the regional,county category. I would be happy with regional,county,local too. There must be something wrong with my site. Could you tell me what may be wrong and if there is a way to fix it and get back on.

sites address

I should have given the sites address;
www.freewebs.com/aprilsfinebabyapparel

thank you.

That url has no history (i.e. no indication it has ever been in the directory at all). It is appropriately waiting in http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/New_York/Localities/B/Bellmore along with http://www.freewebs.com/aprilsknittingclasses/

no history

That is odd. I thought I had been listed because my site had been showing up on google and Aol seach engines. Now it is not. But I guess it has nothing to do with ODP?

aprilsfinebaby said:

I thought I had been listed because my site had been showing up on google and Aol seach engines.

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You are correct, Google and AOL searches have nothing to do with ODP. AOL gets search results from Google. So, if your site ranked well for your keywords in Google, it would also rank well in AOL search.

If you are after higher Google rankings, start by finding out where your site appears now in Google. (Do a Google search for your keywords and see where your site shows up.)

Then, if your position is not where you'd like it to be and if you wish to improve it, you will need to either learn how to do it yourself, or pay someone to do it for you.

If you want to do it yourself, be prepared for a long learning curve. It requires some time each day and a lot of patience. It can take one year or more to acheive results if your keywords are very competitive.

Thanks longcall911

longcall911 said:

You are correct, Google and AOL searches have nothing to do with ODP. AOL gets search results from Google. So, if your site ranked well for your keywords in Google, it would also rank well in AOL search.

But when I try to get relisted on google they refer me to the ODP?

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Maybe you've been asking them about getting listed in the Google directory and not the Google search engine? Since their directory is the ODP data, of course they'd refer you to us if you ask about getting listed there. But their SE data is something else entirely and completely unrelated to us.

From your latest thread.

Still no answer from the editors. I think there is something improper going on. My site has been removed from all of your search engines.

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As hutcheson pointed out, and you acknowledged a couple of months ago, "You are correct, Google and AOL searches have nothing to do with ODP"

Google and AOL's **directories** are clones of the ODP but they are not the search engines. Two entirely different things. You have never been listed, at least not under that URL, in the ODP directory.

I think there is something improper going on

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You bet there is. Submission of related URLs to multiple categories - read the guidelines on the Suggest an URL form - that sort of thing can get all your sites permanently excluded. As a minimum it really really really irritates the hell out of editors who spend their unpaid spare time trying to maintain the directory for the benefit of Internet users. Also submission of sites that are little more than business cards - we require reasonable quantities of high quality original content to be present on sites we list.

Now to give you the status report. Your sites have been rejected, sorry.