new advise what to do

Hutcheson wrote:

But I don't think we can say "don't do a free classified ads site." You absolutely can.

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But I don't think we can say "don't do a free classified ads site." You absolutely can. (You could even do a doorway-to-affiliate-spam site, although we'd have no interest in it: if we could find original content, we'd list it.) And you can put your classified ads on your auto domain or another domain. And you can link to it from your auto domain (and, I'd hope, link back also.) None of this will prejudice an ODP listing that's earned by depth of Auto ad coverage. It will only affect where the site is listed, (perhaps) what URL is listed, and what the description includes.

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sure did, listing has been removed.

The only one thing I want in this post to reverse your edits and keep AutoTradeZone.com in the Auto Classifieds directory. I am not interested in posting AdsOfAmerica.com or MyAdZone.com in Free Classifieds not any more (not because I do not think it is worth to be there).
Both sites are unique and have different content. They link back and promote each other, but have clean content.

Two different sites, as I SAID early, AutoTradeZone can not be in 'Free Classifieds' category since we do not offer free listings there so it can only be listed in proper category. On the other hand 'AdsOfAmerica' or MyAdZone offers only FREE CLASSIFIEDS it has different business model, different database, different front end, different customer base..

I am totally confused, it looks like I need to shut down 'Free Classifieds' to get AutoTradeZone.com posted in right directory, How inspiring.

One more time, I just want to AutoTradeZone.com to be posted in right category. This site should be posted in Auto Classifieds category.

sincerely tomasz

hutcheson,

My site has been removed from directory after being there fore over two years. Can you response to my thread?, PLEASE!

Did you read the previous responses you got?

motsa,

(your comments, open your eyes!!)

yes, i did but i guess you didn't. I did not do anything wrong to have my site removed, just tried to submit new site. READ HUTCHETSON comments!!!

Hello, I submitted my new site http://www.SellMyCar.com to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Classifieds/Automotive/ few months back and I was told that my site WILL NOT BE LISTED and also to contact you for explanation and possible advise , what to do?
My site is major auto classified site with over 160,000 of used cars by owners and car dealers. Can someone advise me why it can not be listed?

thanks, tom

The reason will be found within our Submission Guidelines. In particular the section about mirrors.

Jim, Thanks for answering my question, but it does not apply to my site, because all of my old sites points to ONE DOMAIN - sellmycar.com.
We have purchased this domain and all of our old domains, which been around for quite some time are PERMANENTLY REDIRECTED to this domain using '301 redirect'.

I do not understand how can you call this a mirror site.
thanks, tom

To vefiry this you can always do a header check
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

Here is the list of my old domains; AutoTradeZone.com, AdsOfAmerica.com, UsedCarsDB.com - please test yourself

Plus, This is the only one site I am trying to list with ODP

Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs.

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all of them have the same URL sellmycar.com

And yet http://www.adsofamerica.com was submitted to a different category only a few months ago and as recently as July it redirected to http://www.autotradezone.com/. It's no wonder we're confused by all the smoke and mirrors.

Gaming ODP often ends in tears. I suggest you explore other methods of promoting your website(s).

Jim,
You are wrong I am not trying 'to gain ODP' I am just trying to have one site listed. I did everything according to guidelines.


Can you please review my previous posts.

"AdsOfAmerica is dead"

http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18152

PLEASE READ ENTIRE POST!
all of my sites points to one domain

I am trying hard to list my ONLY SITE and redirect is motivated by growth of the company and trying to mark the name we invested in.

What was the point in starting a new thread (rhetorical)? All it did was waste my time going over old ground again.

We are happy to answer reasonable status requests here.

We are not happy for , and our forum rules forbid, discussion about whether or not a website should be listed to take place here.

Merging and closing.

You have a long history of changing the redirects on your domains on a regular basis, switching around which sites are mirrors and which is the primary site with alarming frequency. That makes us much less amenable to doing anything with any of your domains.

The comments made in that thread you quoted (added: now this thread after jimnoble's merging) still stand. You now have your general classifieds site at myadzone.com instead of adsofamerica.com but your auto subsite still won't be listed separately. Changing the URLs doesn't change the basic facts of your situation and you've already been told that several times.