Status - http://www.sellthishouse.com/HND_Bay_Islands/Bay_Islands.html

Please let me know the status of the submission of:
www.sellthishouse.com/HND_Bay_Islands/Bay_Islands.html
to category:
Regional/Central_America/Honduras/Islands/Roatan/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate

Thank you!

As stated in the ATTENTION - Forum Guidelines - READ BEFORE POSTING we need a clickable link for the category.

Status - SELLthisHOUSE.com Submission

Please let me know the status of the submission of:
http://www.sellthishouse.com/HND_Bay_Islands/Bay_Islands.html

to category:
http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?whe...lands/Roatan/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate

I hope these are clickable - they don't appear that way as I am composing the message. Thank you!

SELLthisHOUSE.com

Hello! I keep trying to find out about the status of my submission, but it seems my URL keeps being abbreviated and then I am told my link is not clickable.

http://www.sellthishouse.com/HND_Bay_Islands/Bay_Islands.html

Category:

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Central_America/Honduras/Islands/Roatan/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/

This time I unclicked "automatically parse links in text", whatever that means. Please help! Thanks...

By unparsing you managed to avoid creating clickable links however:

The description for that category says

Please submit to only one locality - the one where your business is located, as your site will only be listed once - and use the following formatting:

Therefore, that URL will not be listed, since you are trying to list a house for sale at that Region, not a real estate business.

You are also trying to list a page within a site, and that is only allowed by editor discretion. If that page was accepted, we would have allow every page within http://www.sellthishouse.com/

In addition you submitted your page to Regional/Central_America - which says

Very few sites belong in this category. If your site concerns only one country in Central America, please submit it to an appropriate category under that country. If your site concerns a particular aspect of more than one Central American country, please submit it under a subject category.

Both submssions have been deleted.

SELLthisHOUSE.com Bay Islands Real Estate

Please note that SELLthisHOUSE.com is a real estate business. This is not a page advertising a single house, it advertises many houses and a number of businesses in the region for which the submission was made.

Please let me know how to get my submission approved.

http://www.sellthishouse.com/HND_Bay_Islands/Bay_Islands.html

I am not sure how to solve the problem of the Bay Islands page being rejected simply because it is a part of a larger website advertising different properties around the world.

My category of choice was not Central America, it was the specific islands where the properties and businesses are located.

http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Regional/Central_America/Honduras/Islands/Roatan/

>I am not sure how to solve the problem of the Bay Islands page being rejected simply because it is a part of a larger website advertising different properties around the world.

There is no problem to be solved. The Open Directory is working exactly as it was designed to work, for the benefit of the people for whom it was designed.

>My category of choice was not Central America, it was the specific islands where the properties and businesses are located.

Because that kind of desire is so common among real estate webmasters, we must make special efforts to counteract, contravene, and cancel its effects: so that our users can see results unbiased by it.

Let me try again - this is ODP policy for all web sites

We will not list individual pages of a web site, unless those pages provide substantially different content from the rest of the web site. If most of your site sells real estate, and you have a page on that website that offers custom made cigar boxes, it might be allowed.

Exceptions will be made for some some spcific web sites as a whole by internal discussions by sentior editors. Those exceptions are rare and may take months to resolvve and reach agreement. You will not qualify for that.

In some case, editors may decide to list specific pages, however, the public at large must not submit specific pages.

In addtion to the above, the requirements for real estate listings are stricter than any other type of sites due to the general abuse and multiple submissions encountered in that area. Read http://dmoz.org/realestateguidelines.html

You are cautioned that continued submission in violation of these policies does have negative consequences.

SELLthisHOUSE.com - Submission Attempt

Thank you for enlightening me. I am new to DMOZ.

I suppose I have a couple of options:

1. Submit SELLthisHOUSE.com home page alone, which is for properties world-wide.

2. Create a new domain name for my regional listings in Roatan and submit it as a Roatan page.

My question for you is would either of these options be more advantageous in achieving a good page ranking for my Roatan (Bay Islands) page when compared to other pages which are already in the Roatan regional directory?

Thank you!

Dunno about page ranking, that's a Google notion. ODP has no page rank.

However, breaking a domain into separate "vanity domains" and submitting each of the vanity domains to the ODP separately, is regarded as the third most heinous form of malicious submitter abuse (after bribery and bait-and-switch). And so even the submittal guidelines mention that all sites related to you can be removed from the ODP as a penalty for this.

If that doesn't convince you it's not a good idea, then go ahead. We don't like banning sites, but we do it anyway when we think it necessary.