RamjeHerboProducts

Please can anyone here tell me when my site will be listed in product category? Someone please review it!!!

http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Herbs/

Site: www.ramjeherboproducts.com

Don't know about the health cat, but you are listed here http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Tamil_Nadu/Districts/Vellore
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When did you submit? There's a very long queue in unreviewed for that cat but I can't see your site there.

I submitted before in Feb I think. I m sorry I am not very sure. But recently I resubmitted it. Many many thanks if could review it.

Thanks Gimmster for the info. But my site best fits me in herbs category. Please help.

Don't forget - you are allowed one listing in the Topical part of the directory (i.e. by Subject) and one listing in the Regional part of the directory (i.e. by Location), so you are listed and findable. Someone will get to the other submission eventually; we just can't say when.

You can have both a Regional and a Topical listing. If you can't remember where you submitted, search for the best category match and resubmit it there *once*. Someone will get to it. If you dont see it listed where you resubmit, come back here and ask again after a month (remember the category name, and re use this thread).

Read the category description when you resubmit - it may tell you if particular sites are not listed there (I think in Health you cant be selling anything, it must be an information site, but I'm not sure - I know in shopping you must have products, prices, a way to order (doesn't matter how), and deliver internationally or within the USA) Submit where you think it fits best, just be aware that it may be moved elsewhere, and in those categories listings may take several months.

Good luck
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Ok. I will do that. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

If you sell stuff on your site then you must submit in Shopping/Health somewhere.

Outlandsgypsy is the category editor for this caetgory.

In her profile it is mentioned : Life is a chaotic, and my editing time is extremely limited at present.

Won't this affect reviews? So my site will be reviewed or what else should I do? Please advice.

&gt;Won't this affect reviews?
It won't affect reviewing time HALF so much as waiting in the wrong category for an editor to send it to the right category to wait.

&gt;So my site will be reviewed?
Yes. Sometime.

&gt;What else should I do?
Check back in a month.

hi, can anyone review my site in topical category please? I was asked to check back after a month, which I am doing. Thanks for any help in advance.

Your site is awaiting review in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Alternative/Herbs/ . Popular category. There are many other sites also waiting for review.

Thanks for your info. I was asked to check back after one month now, that is today. Please do review my site. I submitted in Feb. Thanks once again, for any help.

You were told you could check on the status after a month, not that you could post in a month and someone would go out and review your site then. Posting here doesn't move you to the front of the queue and get you reviewed immediately. Someone will review your site eventually. 2 months is not a very long wait. You can check back again in a month but that means just that -- you'll get an update on your status but an editor won't go and review your site then.

You were told you could check on the status after a month, not that you could post in a month and someone would go out and review your site then. &gt;&gt; I thought this is a "site submission status" thread and never knew I should not ask what happened to review. But what is the point of this forum then?

Posting here doesn't move you to the front of the queue and get you reviewed immediately. Someone will review your site eventually. 2 months is not a very long wait. You can check back again in a month but that means just that -- you'll get an update on your status but an editor won't go and review your site then. &gt;&gt; I know that. Since, it is three months since submission, I asked here. <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" alt="" /> . Thanks anyway! I thought I can ask here, what is my submission status.

&lt;&lt;&lt;Thanks anyway! I thought I can ask here, what is my submission status.&gt;&gt;&gt;

There is a difference between asking what your submission status is, and asking someone to go out and review your site as you did earlier. The purpose of this forum, to answer your question above, is to allow submittors to know if a site has been reviewed, deleted, or listed. The purpose is not to allow people to jump to the front of the line when others are waiting patiently for their turn. If we did that, it wouldn't be fair.

I did look at your site though, and I can tell you that it doesn't qualify for a listing in shopping. There are several problems that I see.

1. It appears that you deliver to India only from this statement: Delivery : All major cities in India on working days, which would mean your site would need to be listed in Regional (which is it is: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Tamil_Nadu/ Districts: Vellore), although there is a US currency amount listed--but the problem there is that there is a minimum order of $500. It is possible that you do ship to the US (for a listing in Shopping you would need to ship to your country and one other country, it does not have to be the US) but 2. You do not appear to be selling to the general public but rather are a manufacturer. To be listed in shopping you must be offering products to the general public. Also, 3. to qualify as a shopping site you must offer prices and a way to purchase. I see no prices, but do see there are only 2 products offered (pain balm and ointment) and can draw the conclusion this is not a shopping site as no one in the general public is going to buy $500 worth of these two products for use in one home regardless of whether a per unit price is given.

It appears to me that your regional listing is appropriate. It is possible you may qualify for a business listing as a manufacturer (someone who is more familiar with business listings would need to answer that), but it doesn't appear that you ship out of your region from what is posted on your website so my conclusion would be that it is listed appropriately for now. It definately doesn't qualify for a listing in Shopping/Health/Alternative/Herbs.

There is a difference between asking what your submission status is, and asking someone to go out and review your site as you did earlier&gt;&gt; I never ordered any one to review. I just requested. Please do not say that no one in any single thread in the forum requested a review. Since I was asked to come back a month later, I did, and some one here telling me not to post. When you tell me there is a way of answering, the same applies for every one. Just imagine, checkig my site every day three to many times, a day whether it is listed or not, and coming here and posting, and some one telling me I do not have any posting rights??????

If you sell stuff on your site then you must submit in Shopping/Health somewhere.&gt;&gt; Some one has said this, you can see in the thread. I definetely manufacture/supply medicines, and felt I qualify for the above listing. So I resubmitted it, from here, (the same day I saw the post of John Caius, I resubmitted to shopping category from: http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Alternative/Herbs)

But thanks for your time. Best regards.

Apologies - my fault. I had forgotten the Shopping category requirements of shipping to multiple countries. The advice given to submit to Regional is correct.

First, motsa didn't tell you that you have no right to post. What she said was "You were told you could check on the status after a month, not that you could post in a month and someone would go out and review your site then. Posting here doesn't move you to the front of the queue and get you reviewed immediately." This was in response to your statement "Thanks for your info. I was asked to check back after one month now, that is today. Please do review my site. I submitted in Feb." All that was meant was that you have the right--the same as anyone here--to inquire as to the status of your site. I believe motsa was just pointing out that you can inquire but that it would not change the process or cause your site to be reviewed any sooner than it would without having inquired. You make a statement that you were told not to post, I do not see that:

&lt;&lt;&lt;Just imagine, checkig my site every day three to many times, a day whether it is listed or not, and coming here and posting, and some one telling me I do not have any posting rights??????&gt;&gt;

Nowhere did anyone tell you that you don't have posting rights. It was just pointed out when you asked someone to go and review the site that it wasn't possible so that there was not any confusion. You have every right to post here and inquire as to the status of your site. I had hoped my input was helpful, as to what shopping requirements are.

The purpose of this forum is to help, which editor John_Caius was trying to do. Before he posted at all, gimmster had already told you " I know in shopping you must have products, prices, a way to order (doesn't matter how), and deliver internationally or within the USA) Submit where you think it fits best, just be aware that it may be moved elsewhere, and in those categories listings may take several months." Based on that statement alone, doesn't fit shopping criteria. You have no prices, and it appears you do not ship outside of your region. In addition, and this is the big one-- your focus is not as a shopping site that sells to the general public but rather as a manufacturer, . As a submittor, it is your responsibility to be sure it is submitted to the correct place. As editors, we attempt to move wrongly submitted sites to other areas--however that ends up taking more time and as stated above your site had not been reviewed yet. The shopping FAQ is available to the public, had you any question that your site belonged there: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/faq.html and is clearly linked from the very top of the shopping category itself. It is unfortunate that your site does not qualify for a listing where you would like it to go. I would hope the positive side is that you now understand why it can not be listed there and that this would save you time in checking and wondering what the status of your site is.