Site Removed after Requested change?

Please Help!

I recently requested a review and change to the description of my promotional products website and although my site shows up when I search for it. When I look for my listing, it appears as thought it's been removed from your directory?

Could my site have been removed?
I followed all the proper procedures for updating my site.
We are one of the larger promotional products distributors for our industry and have invested a lot to make sure that we offer our visitors one of the better websites and online stores for our industry.

Please, Please Help!

GallantGifts

Has my website and listing been removed?

Our search lags behind, because it does not work on live data but on a (roughly weekly renewed) precompiled database.

The site might have been considered to fit a different category better, and been moved there. Depending on the permissions of the moving editor, the site might have been directly listed in the new category, or might now been waiting for reevaluation by an editor with editing pewrmission in the new place. In many cases like this where people asked here at RZ, the site has only been moved to a subcategory, parallel category or something similiar.

Apart from that, the site might have been considered unlistable on recheck.

Since in most cases the update requests are processed by different editors than the initial URL suggestions, a recheck is nott that unlikely to trigger one of the actions above.

Please understand tha we don't discuss individual websites in this forum.

What to Do?

Windharp,

Thank you for your quick response and assistance.

I have one more question.
What can you do if you disagree with an editors decision regarding your website?

If you contact the editor of your category and are told that your site was removed because it appears to be an "affiliate" website but you know that it is a "primary" website for your business and has it's own unique content and shopping cart with 500,000+ items loaded in it.

Is there some type of recourse or procedure to follow?

Thanks,
GallantGifts

If you contact the editor of your category and are told that your site was removed because it appears to be an "affiliate" website but you know that it is a "primary" website for your business and has it's own unique content and shopping cart with 500,000+ items loaded in it.

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That's an odd way of phrasing it. Do you actually have 500,000+ items on hand physically where you are? Keep in mind that we don't list sites that dropship.

That is a really good question

Motsa,

That is a great question.

We do carry some inventory, limited products and screen printing equipment at our company.

In our industry, the Promotional Products / Advertising Specialty Industry.
Every site listed in that category is set up the same way.
We are all manufacturer reps for the promotional industry.
Again, we are the exception in that we do offer in-house screen printing, apparel, graphics services and embroidery services.

Every single one of the promotional product company in our industry have their clients promotional products printed by the manufacturer and then shipped directly to their client.

There is a list of 50+ sites in the promotional products category and each one of them work all the same way.

We are actually one of only a handful of promotional product companies that have gone the extra mile to add in all these products into our own online shopping cart.

Most of the other companies listed just link into the manufacturers websites through frame pages.

I don't see why our site would be singled out like this?
Unless we are doing something wrong.
All I did was follow the proper procedure to change our description because we added all the extra promotional products into our shopping cart.

Please help!
Your advice is greatly appreciated.

GallantGifts

ODP is the sole decision maker as to whether or not a website should be listed - and that decision can change with time.

We won't discuss individual websites here and so I'm closing the thread. Please don't open another one on the same topic.

If you have proof (as opposed to surmise) of editorial abuse, by all means use the report abuse link at the top of the category page.