Status of 2 different sites?

I have submitted http://www.onlineamishfurniture.com and http://www.amishfurnituresite.com to http://dmoz.com/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Furniture/Amish/

It's been almost a year and haven't saw anything as of yet. I was reading an article about how to check the status of a site that has been submitted. Figured it was worth a shot.

Let me know

Chadwick

Please explain more.

How are the two sites related?

What is the business model, e.g. I see the words "All of our tables and most casegoods and bedroom sets are built in select Amish-owned shops by Amish builders" on both sites but there are different addresses. Ditto with the shipping information. From where does the furniture come from when an order is placed?

If you can answer these questions as fully and frankly as possible an editor will hopefully be able to help with the status. Thanks.

Chadwick's Reply

The two sites are only related in a sense that they both sell Amish furniture. I am a web developer who was contacted by the individual site owners to create a website for them.

The information I received from the site owners was that they have a network of different amish builders who build furniture when a customer orders. Depending on what is ordered determines which builder is used.

The furniture comes from different amish communites located throughout Ohio, Indiana & Pennsylvania.

At this time, this is all that I know. Let me know if you need anything else

thanks

chadwick

Sorry Chadwick, I see identical products, identical promotional wording, identical shipping terms. The only thing that seems different are the addresses and very slightly different prices. Are you seriously saying that the owners are completely different and independently contacted you to produce two sites that by sheer coincidence alone appear to be more or less mirrors of each other?

You need to find out from the owners what their business model is. As it stands I see two sites, neither of which have original content, a requirement for listing in DMOZ, and I can't for the life of me tell which, if any, might be the primary site and therefore possibly listable. You need to ask how ordering/delivery works - I am assuming that you place an order and they call up a central distribution point and the goods are shipped direct from there - is this assumption correct?

I guess you could say that http://www.onlineamishfurniture.com is the primary site. That site was the first to be completed. As far as the similarities between the two are concerned to my knowledge is purely coincidental. I simply worked on the design of the site. I did none of the product pages.

Once an order is placed, it is sent to an amish community in either Ohio or Indiana. Order completion takes between 8-16 weeks. Once the order is built and stained accordingly a 3rd party shipping company (Pakship) picks up and delivers the furniture to the customer. The furniture is either dropped off outside or setup inside the household depending on the shipping method chosen.

The sites are not listable, I'm sorry. As I indicated there is a requirement for sites listed in DMOZ to have unique content and these don't qualify for that reason. This is the problem when numerous people share the exact same concept - once one is listed the remainder are superfluous to our purposes and we have no way to tell, nor does it really matter, who came first with the idea - as it happens we have one already.

Thank You

Thank you for all your time and help.

chadwick