Status for http://www.airtaserandstungunstore.com

Domain/site: http://www.peppersprayinformation.com

Location submitted:

http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Emergency_Supplies/Personal_Defense/

Submitted on July 1, 2003

Thanks,

SORRY- the URL in the title is wrong-- I meant to say peppersprayinformation.com -- sorry! (hasn't been long enough for the airtaserstore to be inquiring about it again)

Re: Status for http://www.airtaserandstungunstore.

Since it is just a doorway page to http://www.pepper-spray-store.com/ , it won't be listed.

Both sites rejected and unlistable. How many listings was that one, ahem, company trying to get into that one category?

Please read the submittal policies before submitting any more sites. It may not have made it into the latest edition of the editing guidelines, but Staff has specifically and repeatedly warned us about both "single-product-line" sites, and "sites that are primarily intended to drive commercial traffic to some other site."

Thanks for the feedback-- I am not surprised but the client can see your responses in writing and that will be the end of it. =)

A second question-- where, exactly, are the submittal policies you are talking about? I'd like to have them on hand.

Thanks

Re: Status for http://www.airtaserandstungunstore.

They're not exactly submittal policies, because site submission isn't the main focus of the directory. The section of our editorial guidelines that covers the selection if sites to include is at http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html .

In a sense these might be considered as submittal policies, since I don't suppose there's much point in submitting a site that won't be included.

Re: Status for http://www.airtaserandstungunstore.

Thanks

Re: Status for http://www.airtaserandstungunstore.

See also http://dmoz.org/add.html

>I am not surprised but the client can see your responses in writing and that will be the end of it.

Thanks muchly.

I know that some search engine results placement strategies involve creating these "doorway" or individual product domains. For the most part, we don't care what you do to the search engines (and for their part they don't care what you do to us.)

I say "for the most part" because we run into this problem occasionally:

1) Joe Webmaster creates jw.com for his business, and submits it to the ODP.
2) Joe creates doorway domains keyword-1.com, keyword-2.com, etc., for SE bait.
3) Eddie Editor finally looks at jw.com, thinks, "I've seen this product (or business) before," and looks around, finds keyword-1.com and all the little doorways. Now: which one should be listed? If all the little doorways don't lead to the same place, or the product line domains don't have the same "home" link, Eddie may choose a URL for this content that Joe is just about to abandon -- or, worse, may decide that this content is duplicated so many places, one of them is surely already added.

We won't make these mistakes deliberately, but in your rush to subvert-the-search-engine, make sure you don't confuse the casual customer.