Should I get an email?

Hi,

I've not recieved a confirmation email that you guys recieved my website. So I have no idea what status this has left my site in. I don't want to resubmit in case that hinders my attempts to get in....

what can i do?

www.pure-audio.co.uk submitted in recording studios I believe..

Paul Kent

P.S - it's been about a month since I submitted.

When you submitted, there should have been a browser screen saying something like "thank you for your suggestion...a volunteer editor will review it for inclusion...bla bla bla."

There is no confirmation e-mail. The assumption is that when you get the browser screen, the status is "suggestion available for editor review" (well, actually it takes a small while to visible on the editors' side.)

This assumption is better than 99% true, which is often enough that it's not worthwhile to spend the effort to monitor it. (Rather than investing a horrific amount of reduplicative effort chasing a a vanishingly small number of errors in the existing suggestion process, the ODP harnesses human creativity to devise multiple overlapping and contra-biassing processes. That is, if editors miss a suggested site, if it's important we'll pick it up collecting URLs some other way. Well, actually, it's really the other way around: the "site suggestion" process is a way of letting fellow surfers tell us about sites that we'd overlooked while operating in any of our NORMAL URL-collecting modes.)

so what you're saying is..

It's fine.

Thanks!

Has anyone ever thought of having an online status check?

I share the frustration of many who have invested quite a bit of capital in their websites and who depend on getting hits, but have no way of knowing whether they have been included/rejected/ignored etc..

>> Has anyone ever thought of having an online status check? <<

Yes. It has been discussed several dozen times in the last few years, right here in this forum. See the (very long) list of reasons in those threads why that is not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.

If people depend on getting hits, the ODP is not for them.

Think of the ODP as a list of sites that no longer need ODP listings, and you'll have it about right.

hutcheson said:

If people depend on getting hits, the ODP is not for them.

Think of the ODP as a list of sites that no longer need ODP listings, and you'll have it about right.

Click to expand...

Oh. ok.

But I've read quite a few articles that suggest that because ODP share it's listings with google (and others) it helps get the initial listing, and develop the site ranking (albeit only by one notch) in these search engines.

the quote from hutcheson seems to suggest a chicken and egg scenario? could you explain your meaning a little further.

thanks for your replies guys, I genuinely am just trying to get my head around this whole issue.

Paul

Yes, basically the ODP is not in the chicken futures market.

To all and sundry.

Just read a few more of the threads about the issues I've raised. Apologies for being a nuisance.

Seems like they've all been covered pretty thoroughly.

for anyone reading this thread who wants to know more. Hopefully this will be helpful.

Thread about online status form

Frustrated web site owner (lots of questions answered)

Get the Faqs

Paul