Please give us advice - diet.com "not eligible" for listing.

Background:
We launched http://www.Diet.com for a few months. We have also submitted the site on dmoz.com under Shopping: Health: Weight Loss: Programs http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Weight_Loss/Programs/

We were told on the status board that we were listed under "not eligible for listing".

Any advice on what could've gone wrong? The mission of the dmoz is to make the most comprehensive, user-friendly directory possible. We think Diet.com is a valuable website for millions of users. We just had a couple of interviews by NBC and People magazine. We are totally legit and credible. So any advice from the community on what we should do to get recognized by this important directory?

Thanks so much!


Mike

Please read the forum guidelines and the faq

Especially Why won't you get into a discussion about why you won't list my site?

Best advice is to take advantage of your publicity to pursue promotional venues.

The ODP doesn't list "useful" sites. It lists sites with "unique content", which is not at all the same thing -- it's a much more objective standard, though, and as a standard it has its own "usefulness."

Thanks for your advice, Hutcheson!

We will definitely pursue the promotion route!

We just feel, given that http://Diet.com is based on a new Bestseller - Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet, and is widely endorsed and viewed as next big thing in online dieting (our medical director was invited by American Medical Association to write the Obesity Treatment Guideline), Diet.com may deserve another look for its uniqueness.

Hutcheson, you are kind enough to give your advice. I just want to give feedback, not trying to argue with you... because in the end, the uniqueness is in the eyes of beholder... It is just very sad that http://www.Diet.com is not being listed...

Mike

It is a promotional site. However original the copywriting, it doesn't fit our definition of "content."

Whatever you do to the site, it will still appear to us to be primarily created to drive commercial traffic to other people's products. Because ... it is.

That's OK: it's what was intended. But it is not something in which we have an interest.

http://www.Diet.com doesn't drive traffic to other people's products. It is a membership content site. You only get original content on our sites. Maybe you mean http://www.eDiets.com? - drive traffic to other people's products? but I think they are listed on three directories here...