My Sites Status

Hello, I submitted a few sites into the directory about a month or so ago. The sites are:-

http://www.ramblinguk.com
http://www.anglerscircle.com
http://www.buywineonline.com

I was just wondering about the status of these. I am also interested in becoming an editor in any one of these areas. I applied to become an editor in a walking type category but was told it was too popular. Can you recommend any small walking / angling categories that I might apply for?

Thank you for your time.

Darren

Let's see...

http://www.buywineonline.com brings up a generic BuyDomains.com "Domain for Sale" page. No action has been taken on it, but it won't be listed until there's some content.

http://www.anglerscircle.com brings up a "Server Not Found" error. Again, no action has been taken on the URL, but it won't be listed until there is an actual website at that URL.

http://www.ramblinguk.com looks like it was recently submitted, and seems to have run into the IP address "submission issue". It's in the queue and will be reviewed. Given the minimal content (a few affiliate links and some "under construction" pages), I doubt it will be accepted, though. If you want to check again, you should probably wait a month or so (but use this thread).

If you do check again, please include a clickable link to the category or categories to which you submitted your URL(s).

It looks to me like you may have bigger problems than getting an ODP listing. My unsolicited advice is to create your sites, and develop content for them so that visitors will have something to see, before worrying about where they are listed. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> The ODP doesn't accept sites "under construction" or sites lacking unique content (affiliate links are not considered unique content).

As for suggesting small walking or fishing categories, you might want to try looking at one of the various subcategories in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Recreation_and_Sports/Walking/ or http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Recreation_and_Sports/Sports/Country_Sports/Fishing/ . There are also quite a few small subcategories of http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Outdoors/Fishing/ . I'm sure you could find more by searching the directory.

Make sure, when you're asking for the status of submissions, that you specify where you submitted them (i.e. what category).