Status: marketingtwist.com

Hi,

I didn't know about this forum when I submitted so I don't have an exact date or category.

But, it was a couple of months ago and I'm 99% sure this was the category:
http://dmoz.org/Business/Marketing_and_Advertising/Internet_Marketing/Resources/Publications/

This is the site:
http://www.marketingtwist.com

Can someone tell me if it's in the queue or has been rejected? I don't want to spam the editor with submissions but do want to know if I did something wrong and need to submit again.

Thanks,
Nava

P.S. Also submitted an editor application and was denied, but that was a completely separate submission.

Not listed, and not at all likely to be listed due to lack of unique content. Please note that affiliate links do not count as unique content for our purposes. And no, you needn't submit it again, the answer will be the same.

Thanks for your response, but have to say I'm a little confused. This site is an ezine that publishes original content on a regular basis. It recommends affiliate products but the site itself is not a affiliate link. There are no other sites called Marketing Twist.

So, I guess what I'm asking is if it's rejected because it references affiliate products because I thought that wasn't frowned upon as long as they're part of a genuinely unique site which I thought this was.

Not trying to be argumentative. I just want to understand why it's viewed as an affiliate site.


Thanks again,
Nava

No, to be very specific, we don't call that an "affiliate site", we call it a "lead generator for an affiliate site."

And we don't list lead generators.

E-zines focusing on affiliate marketing opportunities would get rejected for both reasons, or for either.

Take another example, and our general principle may be clearer. Say a site is an "ad banner farm" -- that is, it basically consists of advertising banners with links to other sites. We don't list it.

Now, suppose that webmaster sees how quickly his sites (folks who make one such site usually make zillions of them) get rejected, and he has a clever idea. "I won't show all my ad banners on the site, I'll collect people's email addresses and ... mail the banners to them, one per day!"

Now, has that idea turned an unlistable site into a listable site, or has it added an additional reason for not listing? The latter, obviously: the editors can't review the site "contents," they couldn't list the site even if that content would have been listable if it had been online.
Affiliate marketing programs are treated the same way. If we listed "reviews of affiliate programs", every program out there would tell all their affiliates, "Look, don't just set up an affiliate doorway. Make up a couple of success stories about our program, label them "reviews", and you can get past the trolls under the ODP castle drawbridge."

No, we aren't going there. If editor judges that the main purpose of a site is to promote affiliate programs, it doesn't matter how that site's promotional content is published. We won't list it.