Qualified site but not listed!

hnkank · Sep 15, 2008

I submit a website for Trophy Shop to Shopping/Gifts/Personalized/Trophies/ around 3 month ago, My site is high quality ecommerce site with Google Badge accepted in yahoo directory and several other high PR directories.

I submitted w/. Proper Title and description but never listed,
I tried to contact editor but his email link is not working.
Last time Category updated on:Tuesday, August 5, 2008

If someone can help me and find out what I am over looking,
will be appreciated!

spectregunner · Sep 16, 2008

Guess you missed the part of the forum rules where it said that they do not discuss specific sites here and that you should not link drop.

Guess you also missed the part in the FAQ that discussed how long it takes to get reviewed.

Guess you also missed the part of the listing guidelines that make it pretty clear that it does not matter what Yahoo does, and that this directory does not care in the least about PR -- be it high, low or somewhere in the middle.

hnkank · Sep 16, 2008

Thanks for you comments, I did't see the forum guide line, I will check, if you can find
what I have over looked during submition, will be appreciated!

jimnoble · Sep 16, 2008

what I have over looked

You've not only overlooked thousands of similar threads but you've also overlooked that this is a volunteer organisation. Some editor will evaluate your website in time but we can't predict who or when that will be. The time scale is uncontrolled and can range from a few days to a few years.

There is no legitimate way of expediting this and re-suggesting your website could well be counter-productive.

Bleak? No; reality. I suggest that you focus on other means of promoting your website and stop agonising over an ODP listing.

hnkank · Sep 16, 2008

Thanks for your comments, Our Site is coming on top 5 postion in yahoo, MSN, Altavista etc (but not on google) with some targeted Key words for Trophies. We are paying huge amount to google every month on pay per click because our site is not getting good postion in Google natural listing as most of our competitor are dmoz listed with higher PR.
We pay most of our profit to Google, if Listing in Dmoz will takes years then How the New webbase companies will survive.

hutcheson · Sep 16, 2008

We pay most of our profit to Google, if Listing in Dmoz will takes years then How the New webbase companies will survive.

Historically, most new businesses don't survive very long. I can't imagine why adding a webbase would change that fact.

But it's simply not true that you pay most of your profit to Google. What you pay to Google isn't profit by definition, it's expense. You may need accounting advice worse than you need business strategy advice.

But if most of your EXPENSES are paid to Google for advertising, then your business plan has a major flaw. BUILDING VALUE DOESN'T COME CHEAP.

And if a company isn't building value, then ... the world will be better off without it. And you'd be better off moving on to a company that's planning to use your energy to create value.

hnkank · Sep 17, 2008

Thank you for advice, I hope if you put more time on volunteer work than free advises, will be appreciated.

I am not SEO, I am Genuine website owner who deserve for listing in DMOZ, but what I saw here, every one try to say I am wrong.

You people have join this team as volunteer work, try to help others, not to find their miskates by lack of knowledge.

jimnoble · Sep 17, 2008

You people have join this team as volunteer work, try to help others, not to find their miskates by lack of knowledge.

Actually no.

We're here as hobbyists for the pleasure and satisfaction of building a directory. We aren't here to serve others at all. Those of us who can spare a little time in this forum are usually happy to explain how things work. We aren't happy to get into discussions about what outsiders want us to do and where our priorities lie.

As to your lack of knowledge, please take a look at this forum's FAQ.

hutcheson · Sep 17, 2008

This forum is for volunteers to inform people about how the ODP works, to clear up mistakes.

There are other places where volunteers help inform surfers about websites, or where volunteers help inform people about other subjects.

Each volunteer chooses where to work. However, most volunteers try to work where they can cooperate to create value. And so an appeal to volunteers to work to help someone extract value from someone else -- is not going to get a sympathetic hearing.

I think that's a good thing.

Well, I'm off to create some more value, and give it away for free. And if that hurts someone else's business plan....I'll probably not notice.

hnkank · Sep 17, 2008

Thanks all you guys for your advices, Its all really sound depressing, World Largest Directory totaly depends on hobbyists who work for pleasure and satisfaction, can go upto 2 years for simple work.

pvgool · Sep 17, 2008

hnkank said:
Its all really sound depressing, World Largest Directory totaly depends on hobbyists who work for pleasure and satisfaction,

Depressing? If I would not get pleasure and satisfaction about what I do at DMOZ I wouldn't do the work, not as volunteer and not even as paid job. What do you like best. Nobody doing the work or us doing the work with pleasure and satisfaction.

can go upto 2 years for simple work.

With the enormous amounts of spam and deciving websites we get suggested reviewing a website is not simple work. Each review takes time. And sometimes a lot of time. Searching for good websites in other sources can in many instance cost less time.

hutcheson · Sep 17, 2008

Yeah, don't stress. The reason the ODP is the largest directory is that it's focused on BEING a directory. Other sites focus on offering commercial SEO services, and many of them do THAT better than we could ever do.

Everyone focuses on what's important to them. And nobody can make anyone else do anything. That's freedom, and I've always found it rather exhilarating.

hnkank · Sep 17, 2008

That I know from this Forum, It is much difficult as Rocket Science.

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