Respected company but no listing

Hi

I submitted our company site on two occasions and although we are a respected company there is no sign of our company being listed and yet our competition seem to easy get added.

Can anyone make some suggestions please?

Thanks

Taz

You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.

jimnoble said:

You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.

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You know I get it. Don't take it personal if a site you suggest does not get chosen. It may be a better site, have better info and be one of a kind that makes it different and possibly should be included and still may not be.

Do I have the jist of this?

Skip said:

You know I get it. Don't take it personal if a site you suggest does not get chosen. It may be a better site, have better info and be one of a kind that makes it different and possibly should be included and still may not be.

Do I have the jist of this?

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Yes, you are very close.
The only thing slighty misunderstood is the "chosen". It is not that we chose which websites to list it is just that we have not looked at many sites that could be listed. And before we look at a website we can not know if it is "better".
BTW "better" is not something that can be used to review a site. What is "better" and for who. We look at unique content only, quality of the website or its content is no reason to list or reject a site.

It may be a better site, have better info and be one of a kind that makes it different and possibly should be included and still may not be.

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Of course. How could it be any other way? We can't know which sites are "better" (assuming that's an applicable concept, which it's not, as pvgool pointed out) until we've reviewed ALL the sites. Which we haven't.

So we just keep reviewing one at a time. When we come to the end of the internet -- we'll stop, cut the final directory, close down the forums, and go look for something else to do.

Until then, for all we know, there may be different, better sites, that haven't been reviewed. That's why we are still reviewing sites!

Footnote: in fact, the ODP does list the large majority of the most valuable sites. How do I know this? For years, in casual surfing, I've run across sites that were so unique, so compelling, that I dropped everything to go login to the ODP to list them. And nearly all of them were already there. Try the experiment yourself, with sites that have nothing to do with you personally. YOU'LL probably be surprised at what you find.