Status of http://www.cjhomefurniture.com

Just checking on the status of http://www.cjhomefurniture.com.

I submitted it to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Furniture/

Also, I have another web site that is already included which is http://www.cjhomeandoffice.com and was wondering about having a slight change to that to remove the reference to office chairs since I don't sell those any more.

I'm curious if the http://www.cjhomefurniture.com is not being added because the editor may think it's the same as the other one? They are two completely different lines of furniture but both sites are owned by me.

Thanks so much for any info you can give!!

As you said, your business is already listed in the same category. We won't list seperate sites for each line of furniture you offer.

Thanks for the information. I thought since it was a completely different web site with a different type of furniture and no common products it would qualify.

We are run by the same company but it's two separate sites. Is there anything we can do to make it qualify to be listed? The sites are separate and I can't get listed in a lot of the engines without a listing in DMOZ. Would it be possible to try and get listed in another category?

Thanks very much for your quick answer!!

>>Is there anything we can do to make it qualify to be listed?<<

I'm afraid not. We won't give two listings to a company in the same Shopping/ category.

>>Would it be possible to try and get listed in another category?<<

Absolutely, categorically not. You've supposedly submitted to the one best category for your site, and it won't be listed there; why would we list it in a category that doesn't fit as well?

We don't give separate listings for individual products or product lines within the same business.

The ODP is not intended to be an index of web pages; nor is it intended to be a substitute for good web design -- how users navigate your site to find your products is your own responsibility. If you want to break the navigation on your site so that users viewing one area can't find your other products, we won't insist that you fix it, but we won't list both areas, either.

Thanks for explaining and for all your hard work.

I really do appreciate it!! I understand now.

You take care.

Christine

One more quick question. I hope I'm not being a pest!

Do you understand that the two URLs don't point to the same site? They are two completely separate stores on Yahoo with different merchant accounts. I own both and have reciprical links but it's not one site, it's two.

Just making sure I was clear.

Thanks again!!

Christine

No problem. We're here to answer questions.

Yes, we understand that the URLs point to different places. That's not our concern, and what I said holds true. From our point of view, it is still a single business, with two product lines that it happens to place at different URLs. Just as it isn't our concern that you want to break your site navigation, we also don't care whether you break it by hosting the sites in one, two, or several hundred different places. We'll still just list the one.

The actual location of content is irrelevant to the ODP. A business may spread a single site over many different locations. Or a single location may contain many different sites, containing many different kinds of content from many different people (think Geocities). Your situation is considered to be the former -- a single site spread over two locations -- not the latter.

Gotcha. Thanks.