Please, help to find an appropriate category

Hi pals,

Our company, Tsarfin Computing Ltd., develops network monitoring and diagnostic software. I've been trying to submit our URL <url removed> N-times during 5 months without a success. Therefore, I would be sincerely grateful if somebody could help to submit our URL to ODP:icon_excl

Is it that you've gotten errors when you try to suggest your site? Or that you've suggested it but it hasn't been listed yet? Depending on the category where you suggested the site, it can take anywhere from hours to years for a suggested site to be reviewed by a volunteer editor.

Actually, it hasn't been listed yet

I've been trying a following string: Software-Networking.

A site suggestion is just that: a suggestion. Nothing will happen unless (and until) an editor working in that area reviews the site.

I'm not sure what you mean by "trying a string", that's not something that seems to me to be something related to suggesting a site.

The process works something like this:

1/ A member of the public find a site that they think might add value to the directory.

2/ They use the web form we provide to suggest the site to an appropriate category. (Right now we're having some technical problems, so you can't actually do this stage at the moment -- Watch the announcements here for more news.)

3/ A volunteer editor reviews the suggested site, and decides whether it should be included.

4/ If appropriate the site is listed, and will then be on public view as part of the directory.

More details about the suggesting part can be found at http://dmoz.org/add.html

More details about how we decide which sites to list can be found at:
http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html

The FAQ here also provides useful information, including explaining that since all our editors are volunteers, we can't provide any time scale for the review process:
http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/faq.php?faq=odp#faq_faq_site_questions

(Finally, please don't suggest a site multiple times -- it only adds to the work of the editors, and may slow down the review process even more. It's also contrary to the submission policy that you need to agree to when you submit the form.)

Dear Chaos127,

Thank you for your explanation. Frankly speaking, I did as described without using advertising words, slogans, etc. And will try one more time, because of big importance for our companyto be enlisted here.

Of course you will have to wait until the technical problems with the directory have been fixed before trying to resuggest the site. Watch the Announcement Thread for updates as we get them.

Correct me if Im wrong, but the best way to find the correct category to suggest a site is by navigating deep into the category and selecting the correct subcategory that could describe your site. Then copy the link and submit it in order to have the most appropiate link to find your site. All the best!!!

That sounds right. But don't panic. If you suggest the site to a "wrong" category, we'll just move it to the right one. That's something we do for all sites, there is no need to beg for us to do it for this one.

Thanks, Hutcheson. By the way, is there any possibility to contact the Networking Subdirectory editor directly?

I assume that you're talking about http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Networking/ -- in which case there doesn't appear to be a specific named editor for that category (though anyone listed in a higher category, plus 200 or so 'editall' editors are able to edit there).

No-one can contact any editors at the moment due to the ongoing technical problems, but when things are fixed, if you follow the link on any editor name linked at the bottom of a category page, you'll get taken to a page about that editor, which includes a link to send them a message.

However, for various reasons, editors will often not respond to people contacting them about site suggestions, and such contacts will not result in your site being reviewed any faster. (You can imagine the deluge of messages we'd get if it did).

Thanks a lot, Chaos!