proactive-coach.com, formerly personal-life-business-coaching.com

My site was listed for several years, and disappeared from listing last year (2003) at about the time two things occured:
- the Open Directory seemed to be in the middle of a reorganization of sorts
- I changed the URL of my site as the business name changed (I put in a redirect to the new URL, and filled in an "update URL" which didn't lead to any update)

The category didn't have an editor then, and doesn't seem to have had one since. In the meantime, my old listing disappeared.

Over the past few months, I have tried several times to get the new URL listed as a new site, but have never had any results. I just re-submitted yesterday to make sure the info is there by the time you read this posting.

Specifics:
- The category is:
http://dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Coaching/United_States/
- The old site URL was: http://www.personal-life-business-coaching.com
- The site's original name was "Active Life Coach"
- The new URL is: http://www.proactive-coach.com

For whatever it's worth, I have an archived page (from google) showing this ODP category as of July 6, 2003 with my site on it as "Active Life Coach". I have attached a "zipped" version of this archived page to this message.

I just re-submitted yesterday

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updating the request

A little over a month ago, I posted the original message in this thread. At the same time, I resubmitted the info to the open directory. I was told to wait a month, and then "bump" my message. I hope this message does the "bumping".

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just checking

A month ago, there was a message saying my request would be reviewed. I don't know whether I should reactivate the request, or just wait.
Also: the category doesn't have an editor, so I wonder whether this is affecting the review.

How long until my site will be reviewed?

There's no editor for my category - will my submission ever get reviewed?

Wait at least six months after first inquiring here about your site to inquire again. ::>> http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=396

bumping request I made last may

This is to check on the status of the request I made last May...

Former URL was: www.personal-life-business-coaching.com

New URL is: www.proactive-coach.com/life

http://www.proactive-coach.com/ I see no change in status since the last report.

http://www.proactive-coach.com/life I see no change in status since the last report. (Almost certainly will not be listed.)

http://www.personal-life-business-coaching.com/ Rejected.

Sorry not to have better news.

You may ask again in this thread in 6 months.

A question about who I should contact

Of course, i'm interested in the status and, eventually, my goal is to get re-listed.

But it's almost as important to me to understand what may have happened.

There is no editor in my category, and there has been none for quite a long time. So I don't know who to turn to in order to ask.

I hope somebody can direct me.

Here is the question:
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My site was listed for several years, and disappeared from listing in 2003 at about the time two things occured:
- the Open Directory seemed to be in the middle of a reorganization of sorts
- I changed the URL of my site as the business name had changed

When I changed the URL, I had, for a while, a "302" redirect as opposed to a "301" redirect because I didn't know there was a difference between both codes.

I had contacted the Open Directory with a "change" request. However, there was no editor at that point, and there was no answer.

At some point, I noticed that my old listing had disappeared.
I suppose the reason is that you eliminated sites with redirected URL's.

Specifics:
- The category is:
http://dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/.../United_States/
- The old site URL was: http://www.personal-life-business-coaching.com
- The site's original name was "Active Life Coach"
- The new URL is: http://www.proactive-coach.com/life

For whatever it's worth, I had attached to my original posting on this discussion group (May 2004) an archived page from "google directory" showing this ODP category as of July 6, 2003 with my site on it as "Active Life Coach".

- The old site URL was: http://www.personal-life-business-coaching.com

It was removed intentionally and will not be listed

- The new URL is: http://www.proactive-coach.com/life

It has not been reviewed - but my opinion is it will not be listed

We do not discuss reasons for not listing sites - please read the forum FAQ

However read http://www.dmoz.org/add.html ==>

Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

As stated you may ask again in six months.