Simple Question: ".es" Domain Listing?

I have a cool site, good html, ranks well, not spammy, but try as I might for YEARS I can't get listed here.

It's in the English language BUT it's a dot es domain (.es = Spain) (because it relates to a service in Spain of Interest to folk in the UK)

MIGHT (?) this be the reason it's an outcast.

Anybody else in the same boat or can advise?

Thanks.

No, that is certainly not a reason for a site to be rejected. I can't imagine it would ever be a reason for a site to be reviewed either sooner or later either.

[In general, of course the URL can suggest of spam (www.used-cars-for-u-now.ru) or of honest business (www.smith-reeves-farm.co.uk) but there's very little information inherent one way or another in an ".es" domain for a specific business.]

More likely reasons would be

(1) the site wasn't regarded as having significant unique information (as is common for marketing sites). [Note that the uniquely authoritative site for "official information about a service" can only be the person who provides the service--only he KNOWS exactly what he'll do for money. For UNOFFICIAL information, the only source worth considering would be people who have received that service--whether on their own website, or on a website which had its own kind of authority to vouch for those reviews.]

(2) The site appeared appeared (to a cursory glance) "primarily intended to drive commercial traffic to other sites" (as is not unknown for webdesigners who usually do marketing sites, and aren't used to doing sites for honest businesses.)

(3) the topic hadn't yet found a surfer interested enough to review all possible sites related to it, and so this site is still waiting review.

Thanks for your response, good to hear the official line. It gives me cause for hope.

Although still perplexed. The site in question wouldn't fail on tests 1 or 2 above I'm sure, and the section to which it was posted indicated that it had an editor.

Just an opportunity for me to be patient some more I guess. Nothing else I can do. (?)

Thanks again.

It's not so much the "official" line as the "voice of experience". After all, why would you even look at the URL before reviewing a site? Do YOU look at the URL before you click on links in searches? And if so, how much difference does it make in whether you click on the link or not?

The "editor" at the bottom of the page is actually "the editor at the time the page was last updated", bearing in mind that an editor remains on the roll for four months after his last edit.

Just FTR, good html and ranking have nothing to do with whether a site is listable. Significant unique content does. I've listed horrible looking sites, but they had plenty of unique content and the html was good enough that one could navigate the site.

Although still perplexed ... and the section to which it was posted indicated that it had an editor.

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It sounds like you are assuming that the presence of an editor's name on the category indicates some sort of time-frame for your site to be reviewed?
That is not the case.

Editors find sites in all sorts of places, and the suggestions made by others are no more than one place they can look if they choose. Also, volunteers are free to spend their editing time in any way they like (within the guidelines of course), so an editor is under no obligation to look at suggested sites at all.

Lastly, every category has editors, because there are a couple of hundred volunteers who can edit all over the directory.