One website with 3 different categories

Hi everyone,
I have a website <url removed>, only new to building websites but learning everyday. I am familiar with PPC Advertising and SEO to some extent and enjoy working with both. I am Google Advertising Professional qualified and hope to lecture one day soon. I have over 10 years experience teaching beginners to trade the share market and a specialist in Powerpoint and Excel, which I also enjoy. My question is how do I select a category that covers all 3? Would Consulting do it? I have submitted site to DMOZ a long time ago and don't remember to which category. Am I able to change to a business consultancy category for example or do you know of one that fits better. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Regards
Joseph
Australia

Perhaps you should suggest* to the /Regional category where your main office is based instead of trying to find multiple Topical categories to suggest?

* = once ODP suggestions are re-enabled.

I'm sorry giz, I don't understand your reply.
I work from home currently?
p.s do I need to refresh to view any replies?

I agree with editor giz, if you have a walk in office with an address, a Regional
listing would be appropriate, especially if there isn't a Topical category that you would best fit into.

thanks crowbar but I haven't got a walk in office, only a bedroom and desk for a select few but at 49 very rare to find these friends, even here in Australia that's why I'm looking at the internet for guidance.

If there is no regional relevance then choose the single, most relevant topical category and suggest it once there (when the directory is back up of course). Don't worry to much if there are a couple of possibilities. The reviewing editor will move to a more appropriate category if necessary.

Hope that helps.

Regional is another section of the Directory that lists site suggestions by geographic location of the business.

http://dmoz.org/

Regional - http://dmoz.org/Regional/

I'm not qualified to suggest a Topic category for you, I'm not familiar enough with those sections of the Directory, as much as I'd like to help.

thanks shadow.
I'm not sure which category I submitted my web site to, just trying to see if I can make it easier for editor but it appears I won't be able to find out where it is to change it. After reading other posts even if I did find my initial listing and changed it the submission date will be brought forward anyway, is that right?

thanks everyone for your help but it's time to hit the sack.
It's now 2:04am


It's time for us old timers to say Goodnight all :aussie:

p.s. Just checked crowbar,thanks mate, would http://dmoz.org/Regional/Oceania/Australia/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Consultants/
be appropriate do you think?
If agree, how do I find my original submission and suggest the above link?
p.p.s. Will check in the morning for any guidance, thanks again

Every category page has an explanation of the type of sites it might or might not accept. Click on the "Description" & "FAQ" up in the right hand corner of each page.

I'm sure some editors might use date of submission as a protocol, but I don't and I don't think most do, it's not practical, so, I wouldn't worry about that, and site suggestions are not stacked like paper, by date of submission either.

If there have been big changes in the content of your site suggestion, and you can find a category that it might fit into quite nicely, it won't hurt to send just one more site suggestion submission to that category, but, please read our Guidelines and try to write a compliant title/description,

http://dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html

That will help the editor over there, .

If you look at the other listings in the category you're submitting to, it will give you a good idea of the type of sites that are accepted there, and the way titles and descriptions are written, .

Its unlikely (although possible I suppose) that a consultant working from home would fit in the category for all of Australia. It sounds to me like you offer consulting locally (otherwise you would have offices/contact points throughout Australia) so you would probably be best suited to suggest your URL to the town in which you live.

p.s. Just checked crowbar,thanks mate, would http://dmoz.org/Regional/Oceania/Aus...t/Consultants/
be appropriate do you think?

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If you really have no Regional relevance (e.g. no walk-in office, no targetting of Australian clientele in particular, etc.) then Regional wouldn't be the place for you. However, based on your original post, you appear to offer training (presumably physical versus online or virtual), which would be a Regional relevance. If that's the case, then sites in Regional are generally listed in the locality where the businesses are physically located so I would recommend you suggest the site to the locality where you are located.

If agree, how do I find my original submission and suggest the above link

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Don't worry about your original suggestion. Suggesting it one more time to the best category won't be considered spam.

crowbar said:

Every category page has an explanation of the type of sites it might or might not accept.

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Point of clarity (not meant to contradict the rest of the good advice given) but not every category has a charter/description. Most do and most of the upper levels do but it takes an editor to write those charters so its possible that some categories don't have them. Just a minor point, but wanted to clarify it none-the-less.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Localities/C/Camberwell/Business_and_Economy/

As gleaned from your profile page.

Might be a better place to submit in Regional, if you qualify to be listed there, and I'm not sure you do, you might have to be listed in one of the Topical categories instead, as you don't have a brick and mortar office that one could walk into, .

http://dmoz.org/guidelines/regional/listing.html#Types

Locality categories should include:

Sites about the locality and its vicinity.
Sites for entities with a "brick and mortar" operation in the locality, and/or where the operational area has significance only to the locality and its vicinity.

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If agree, how do I find my original submission and suggest the above link?

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You can't, but, resubmiting one time won't hurt.

Added - One of these days I'll learn to type with all ten fingers, instead of one, <G>.

Having a brick and mortar location for customers/visitors is one way of showing regional relevance, but it is important to note that it is not required. There are many types of come-to-you style businesses that often are mobile and therefore don't offer a physical location for customers to visit. The important thing is the site must offer through readily available an easily visible content, a clear relevance to the locality it is being considered for a listing in.

My two-pennies.