Site removed after 3 years on ODP

jessie-b · Nov 18, 2004

Hello,

I have a site: www.fha-home-loans.com which was listed in the ODP for about 3 years. The site provides information on all aspects of the FHA loan program such as qualifying, requirements and loan programs. Can someone review the site / ODP history and shed some light as to why it was removed... and if there is any chance to get it re-listed?

Thanks in advance.
Jessie

bobrat · Nov 18, 2004

This removal was intentional. It seems that the site should never have been listed in the first palce. We do not go into reasons or discussions of why.

jessie-b · Nov 18, 2004

Wow... thanks for responding so quickly. You say that the site should not have been listed in the first place? I am reading your post that you will not go into reasons or discussions of why... but I read submission guidelines and this would seem to be o.k.? Is there something that I would need to change to re-submit it in another catagory, such as my city / office location or should I not bother re-submitting at all?

Thanks,
Jessie

spectregunner · Nov 18, 2004

Based solely upon bobrat's advice, I would suggest that your efforts would be better spent finding alternative means of promoting your site and that resubmitting would be counterproductive.

hutcheson · Nov 18, 2004

No, by current rules (and not all that new ones either) we wouldn't list that site. The issue is really always the same: unique content.

What you call a portal, we call a doorway. (And we don't list doorways.)

jessie-b · Nov 18, 2004

Hello spectrgunner & bobrat

I appreciate your prompt responses from both of you. Although I would like to get more of a reason... not necessarily for this site but any other site I create in the future as to why it apprears to be automatically rejected... I will take you advice and avoid re-submitting. Is there additional guidelines somewhere that I can reference on DMOZ that is more specific as to what is or is not o.k.?

Thanks again for your prompt responses!
Jessie

jessie-b · Nov 18, 2004

Opps,

Sorry about the previous post as I did not see the second post prior. You indicated that the site is a "doorway" is is because of the layout of the site? Each page contains content as indicated on the link. Also, dependant on where the visitor enters, the is "next" links at the bottom the makes the site linear. I am assuming you saying it is a doorway site because of the layout?

Again, thank you for you input and guidance!
Jessie

hutcheson · Nov 18, 2004

For our purposes, the significant topically-relevant unique informational content is essentially all off-site. So we might call it a "decorative doorway."

jessie-b · Nov 18, 2004

Again, thank you for your patience... maybe this will seem like an extremely stupid question but what do you mean by "off-site"?

Do you mean that if someone contacts me I cannot actually help them? I am a mortgage broker in California and I actually help / do FHA loans for the clients that are located in California?

Thanks,
Jessie

hutcheson · Nov 18, 2004

Well, such information as you provide about your own business is uniquely authoritative, at the very least--who else can say what services you will (or won't) provide? And such information as you provide about your own expertise lends authority to your general information.

jessie-b · Nov 18, 2004

Again, I truly appreciate your time. On my site there is my contact information: www.fha-home-loans.com/contact_fha_loans.htm which provides a little bio about myself, along with company information, phone numbers, address, license number etc.

When you say "who else" are you saying that I should create a testimonial page about my services and if so is that all that is missing to have my site considered?

Again, thanks for your help!
Jessie

hutcheson · Nov 18, 2004

No, I'm not saying that. Considering only the unique information about your business, for a regional listing, you'd need "more" information than a Yellow Pages ad or a business card would contain -- but not, perhaps, "lots more". And the site would need to be "arguably about your business" -- that is, the information specifically about your business should be "reasonably prominent" as well as "adequate". There isn't a hard-written rule: editorial judgment is relevant.

Site removed after 3 years on ODP

jessie-b

Member

bobrat

Member

jessie-b

Member

spectregunner

Member

hutcheson

jessie-b

Member

jessie-b

Member

hutcheson

jessie-b

Member

hutcheson

jessie-b

Member

hutcheson