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apartmentguy

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mirrors, dead links, wrong catagories, etc...

With all do respect to the editors, this category is grossly out-dated and has several violations of the guidelines. As I was once an editor in the very early days of ODP, I understand the challenges and appreciate the editors for the job they do.

I've been trying to get my web site RentersInc.com in here for close to a year and to see these web sites in here ... well it's just not right in my humble opinion.

The rent.com clones (affiliate sites) seem to be the biggest problem. If you search deep enough in these sites, you will always end up on rent.com.

Thank you for your consideration.

Catagory: http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/Rentals/

http://www.affordablehousingonline.com/ (Rent.com clone)
http://tempapts.com/ (New York Only - belongs in regional)
http://www.apartmentworld.com/ (Rent.com clone)
http://www.apartmentrelocation.com/ (Not a valid URL points to a different site)
http://www.apartmentsusa.com (Rent.com clone)
http://www.123aptsearch.com/ (Rent.com clone)
http://www.easyroommate.com/ (wrong catagory)
http://www.moveonin.com/ (Apartmentsource.com clone)
http://www.nationalroommates.com/ (wrong catagory)
http://www.open-house-online.com (a1-rentals.com doorway page)
http://www.places4rent.com/ (regurgitated listings from rent.com and apartments.com)
http://www.rentmyhome.com/ (dead link)
http://www.roommates.com/ (wrong catagory)
http://www.seeit.com/ (no original content, list of google ads)
http://www.ushousing.com (affiliate of several sites. no original content)
 
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Ricardo Ramirez

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Dead link

Hi, I being trying to post my site in a certain category, I also read that in some categories it would take a few weeks to 3 years before an editor could view a request. That gives me plenty of time to help out a little, I found a dead link in the following category:

Shopping/Recreation/Guns/Accessories/Cabinets and Safes

Drake Safe Company-Sells Gun Safes

When you click on this link it takes you to http://gunsafe.freeservers.com

and it says "This website has moved, its new address is http://gunsafe.topcities.com/ "

ones you click on the new address it says:

Oops..... The page you are looking for cannot be found.

Thank you, Rick
 
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glynos63

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glynos63

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Title: Harry's Athens Greece Guide
URL: http://www.harrys-athens-greece-guide.com/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Attica/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

Title: Harry's Greece Travel Guide - can you find this title anywhere on the site or the URL?
URL: http://www.greeceathensaegeaninfo.com/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

Title: Ikaria Island
URL: http://www.island-ikaria.com/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Samos/Ikaria/

He is a famous search engine abuser but I don't know if he is famous to ODP as well :) . FYI here are the other sites of him I found and you may find submitted to ODP soon:

http://www.greek-islands-santorini-greece.com/
http://www.greek-travel-discounted-hotels-guide.com/
http://www.harrys-60-greek-islands-guide.com/
http://www.sailgreece.net/
http://www.greek-islands-travel-ferry-schedules.com/
http://athens-greece-guide.tripod.com/
http://www.greek-islands-mykonos-myconos-greece.com/
http://www.santorini-greece-weddings-honeymoons-planner.com/
 
Alucard

Alucard

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#1403 is now one listing less.

#1405, #1406 and #1407 dealt with.

Note: There is some major automated rebuilding of the public pages going on right now - changes may take a while to apepar on the pages.

Thank you to everyone who is helping! :)
 
Alucard

Alucard

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Note for editors:

Currently outstanding requests (hopefully I didn't miss anything)
1364 through 1368
1373
1378
1384
1385 has been partly resolved but needs more work (see #1393)
1386
1389, 1390
1391 has been fixed for 2 keywords
1398
1400 through 1402
1404
 
andysands

andysands

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#1364-1368, and #1373 were dealt with by another editor.
#1378 - site listings in regional and topical are mutually exclusive. The regional listing appears okay to me. We have decided that ferries.gr is the mirror (vanity url) and are using the Paleologos url since that is the name of the company from what we can tell. The ferries.gr listings are gone though.
#1386 - Tried to install an activex control on my computer and was blocked - is this what was being referred to? The site seems to load okay.
#1389 - Has been unreviewed by our linkchecker robot since time of posting
#1390 - done :)

STILL OUTSTANDING (From list in 1409 and subsequent additions)

1331
1384
1385 has been partly resolved but needs more work (see #1393)
1391 has been fixed for 2 keywords
1398 - not sure if anything still needs doing here - alucard said he'd looked at taxi thing
1400 through 1402
1404
1413
 
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glynos63

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#1378 - site listings in regional and topical are mutually exclusive. The regional listing appears okay to me. We have decided that ferries.gr is the mirror (vanity url) and are using the Paleologos url since that is the name of the company from what we can tell. The ferries.gr listings are gone though.
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Hi andysands,

I agree that Paleologos is the real owner of the domains. IMO the listing at http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Transportation/Maritime/Sea_Lines/Ferries/ should be removed since Paleologos is not a sea line or ferry company but a travel agency affiliated with http://www.forthcrs.gr. IMO that category is reserved for maritime companies that operate ferry boats.

Paleologos is a local travel agency in Heraklion of Crete island and its category should be http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Gre...el_and_Tourism/Travel_Services/Travel_Agents/
 
andysands

andysands

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Hi glynos

re: #1412 - upon reviewing the site I agree with your reasoning - it does appear to be a local travel agency that is using ForthNet's electronic ferry booking service. I've relocated the site as suggested,

Thanks for all your hard work on investigating travel affiliate abuse, we'll get through the backlog in the end - sorry for the delay though, this stuff takes time to review.

Kind Regards,

Andy
 
Alucard

Alucard

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More info, please.

Re: #1400 I have dealt with two of them. But I have a question about the third.

Could you please PM me with how you came to the conclusion that corfutoday and hotels-corfu.net are the same company? Apart from cross-linking, I need a little more evidence than that.

This one has taken me a long while to examine - I actually found a whole nest of sites that the hotels-corfu.net company owns and some were listed in the ODP. note the "were".

So please PM me the extra information so I can wrap up that item.

Thanks.
 
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glynos63

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You can check this company's sites at http://www.marinet.gr/travelguides/domains.php

I found the following sites listed on ODP although there may be more.

Title: Travel-To-Arachova.com
URL: http://www.travel-to-arachova.com/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Fokis/Guides_and_Directories/


Title: Travel to Pelion
URL: http://www.travel-to-pelion.com/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Magnesia/Pelion/Guides_and_Directories/


Title: NetYachts
URL: http://www.netyachts.gr/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Recreation_and_Sports/Boating/


Title: Greece Yachting
URL: http://www.greece-yachting.com/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Boating/Directories/Europe/


Title: Marinet
URL: http://www.marinet.gr/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Business/Transporta...ritime/Directories/Directories_and_Databases/


Sorry for the overload :)

Dimitris
 
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glynos63

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Title: Hellas Ferries
URL: http://www.hellasferries.gr/
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Transportation/Maritime/Sea_Lines/Ferries/

Like paleologos.gr at #1378, this site is an affiliate of http://www.forthcrs.gr and not a maritime or ferry company. It is operated by the same company that operates the following site:

Title: Hellas Guide
URL: http://www.hellas-guide.com
Category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

Another question is whether both sites should be listed on ODP since information about ferries is related to travel.
 
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