Site submitted twice in the past 6 months, still nothing

Hi,

I work for a company who has many competitors sites listed in a certain category on your web site. Search Engine Optimisation is massively important to our revenue streams and a listing on dmoz.org would help our Google page rank.

I have submitted our companies web site to dmoz.org twice in the past 6 months, but to no avail.

I think the fact that dmoz.org have listed most of our major competitors and failed to list our company is unfair and gives the listed companies web sites an unfair commercial advantage to page ranking on search engines, particularly google.

dmoz.org is a non-profit, non-commercial entity, however the seemingly arbitrary way it chooses which commercial companies get listed and which do not are influencing commercial markets. dmoz.org should therefore have a much more even handed stance on listing commercial companies web sites, as at present it seems very unfair to companies who seem not to be able to get a listing where other competitors have been listed for years.

searled8 said:

I work for a company who has many competitors sites listed in a certain category on your web site. Search Engine Optimisation is massively important to our revenue streams and a listing on dmoz.org would help our Google page rank.

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DMOZ is not intended for SEO purposes. It will help with Google page rank but so will any other link to your website.

I have submitted our companies web site to dmoz.org twice in the past 6 months, but to no avail.

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See our FAQ for explanation.

I think the fact that dmoz.org have listed most of our major competitors and failed to list our company is unfair and gives the listed companies web sites an unfair commercial advantage to page ranking on search engines, particularly google.

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There is nothing unfair about some website being listed in DMOZ and others not. DMOZ will give no website, listed or not listed, a commercial advantage or disadvantage. This is just a myth.

dmoz.org is a non-profit, non-commercial entity, however the seemingly arbitrary way it chooses which commercial companies get listed and which do not are influencing commercial markets.

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Our listings are not arbitrary. The guidelines we use are available for everybody to read. And every websites is judged against these guidelines and only those guidelines.

dmoz.org should therefore have a much more even handed stance on listing commercial companies web sites, as at present it seems very unfair to companies who seem not to be able to get a listing where other competitors have been listed for years.

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Companies should never rely on other people/companies for a commercial succes. The only one who can influence such a succes is the company itself, its owners and employees. Please do not blame a group of volunteers who are buidling a directory as a hobby for your lack of succes.

One last remark.
Why did you post the same in 2 threads.
Doing so is not nice. :thumb1:

I totally disagree with you, oh well, it was worth a try.

There's nothing wrong with disagreement. What's wrong is misunderstanding. And understanding is achievable, even when agreement's not. When each party knows the other party's motivation, each party knows what can reasonably be expected from the other party.

A webmaster may be concerned about self-promotion (including SEO). An editor _is_ expected not to act on SEO-based concerns.

Common ground is possible between webmasters and web indexers--it just has to be found somewhere other than SEO issues. (Unique information is always a good place to start.)