Status of http://www.mensclinicuk.com

Hi,

Just wondering the status of the above site which was posted to http://dmoz.org/Health/Men's_Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Impotence/ on 15/10/03

Regards,

Mark Holdsworth

It's a clinic site? The metatags make it sound like an online pharmacy -- and it is apparently too affiliate in nature to get listed at ODP.

Thanks for your reply.

Very concerned that you're saying it cannot be listed within ODP, as this will be a major setback for the site. Is it a case you feel I've chosen the wrong category for the listing?

My concern here is that I'm employed to concentrate on the SEO aspect of the business, and not being listed within ODP will hamper this process.

Regards,

Mark Holdsworth

You won't get a listing in Health wih that site. You can submit it over to the Shopping section of online phamacies but there is a big backlog in that area - and from my experience editing in that area - your site will most likely not be added.

>My concern here is that I'm employed to concentrate on the SEO aspect of the business, and not being listed within ODP will hamper this process.

This is not a concern of the ODP, and it is sufficiently important that it CONTINUE being not a concern, that one can make it a concern only at the risk of loss of editorial privileges.

The ODP is not for SEO. Period. We don't help it, we have nothing whatsoever to do with it, and it is absolutely impossible that we hinder it. All we can do is decline to help increase a site's visibility. We can't get you banned at Google or any other search engine on earth.

One SERP perp, with whom I would probably agree on very few things on earth, told me something like "a marketing strategy that depends on the ODP doesn't deserve to be called a strategy at all." Well, with that I cannot argue.

We can at least help out by pointing you in the direction of a category with lots of useful resources on the subject, here.