Status of http://www.RealtyInOregon.com please

The url i added several weeks ago and again this week is:

http://www.RealtyInOregon.com


Under the directory:
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Oregon/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/

Thank you very much
Eli

You can bump this thread to get a status -- any time AFTER one month AFTER its LAST submittal.

Is it bad that I resubmitted it?

Possibly bad for you in that if you resubmitted to the same category then in all probability it overwrote the old submission, so if the reviewing edito chooses to sort the submission pool for that category by date of submission, and edit the oldest submissions first, you have moved to the back of the line.

We may only be able to see the last submittal, so the forum policies are based on dates since the last submittal. That's all.

May I get that status now?

I checked my logs it was a month ago since my last submission.

thanks for all your patience,
Eli

I've checked our logs and its exactly 11 days since you suggested it last.

Since you can infer from that that I could see the suggestion, its status is 'recieved and waiting review'. Feel free to come back in 28 weeks to re-check status if it has not been listed before then. (26 +2 for being early)

:tree:

Well I guess it's that six month time again. My how time flies when your getting nowhere.

Would it be okay if i got another status check?

Has it really been 28 weeks from August - my how time flies.

Hmmm...

1. September
2. October
3. November
4. December
5. January

= 5 months. Oregon must operate on a different calendar than everyone else. No need to wait any longer though, the site was declined I am affraid.

oh i'm sorry your right i just can't count today.

Plus I haven't thought about it in awhile.

Declined? That I don't understand.

Lets go through the Guidelines and let me know if there's any errors:
1)Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs.

Same URL http://www.RealtyInOregon.com (It used to be aplaceinoregon.com but I sent in a request for that submission request to be removed before I submitted the RealtyInOregon.com address and it was,)

2)Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

Truely Unique content infact it's the only website in Oregon that truely pertains to Oregon real estate as a whole as the catagory is specific to.

3)Do not submit any site with an address that redirects to another address.

No redirects.

4)The Open Directory has a policy against the inclusion of sites with illegal content. Examples of illegal material include child pornography; libel; material that infringes any intellectual property right; and material that specifically advocates, solicits or abets illegal activity (such as fraud or violence).

Good wholesome information here.

5)Do not submit sites "under construction." Wait until a site is complete before submitting it. Sites that are incomplete, contain "Under Construction" notices, or contain broken graphics or links aren't good candidates for the directory.

Been completely operational since day 1

6)Submit pornographic sites to the appropriate category under Adult.

No adult content

7) Submit non-English sites to the appropriate category under World.

completely english in english catagory

8) Don't submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links.

zero affilliate links, but I do have 1 google adwords code on the bottom of each real estate listing. As far as I understand thats not against the rules.

Could a Meta-Editor please take a quick look at my suggestion and determine whether or not I should have gotten rejected?

Also whats interesting...back to the duplicate content rule.
Check out these two urls listed under the same catagory as the one i'm trying to get into.
http://www.forsalebyowner-oregon.com/
http://www.forsalebyowner-or.com/

Why won't you get into a discussion about why you won't list my site?

and

http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html#notinclude

[Your site has already been looked at by a number of editors including a meta]

I didn't ask to discuss it. I requested that a meta-editor look into the suggestion and determine whether the rejection was legitimate or not. Your not the only one with better things to do then argue about whether or not it should be included.

thanks for your quick reply,
Eli

Rejected by three meta editors independently at different times plus 2 senior editalls one of whom is a retired meta. Oh, and 2 plain vanilla editors too. Twice by one of them. So that is 8 rejections by 7 different editors, between them probably several hundred thousand edits worth of experience. The last one is not recorded in the logs as it was a recheck based on this thread. Does that answer the question?

yes it does thank you very much,
I'm off to resubmit.

Thanks,
Eli

There I resubmitted. Maybe I just used a bad description or something last time. I'm sorry if I came across as rude. This is just really fustrating.

Thanks,
Eli

No problem, but you are either joking, or completely missed the point.

It will be rejected on site [sight]

[Oh, forget to tell you that your submission to Computers/Software/Freeware - was not accepted - an editor felt it didn't seem to fit there for some reason]

Wait now i'm confused.
You see I operate over 100 websites so promoting can get kind of mixed up.
I was wanting the submission status for http://www.RealtyInOregon.com
for the catagory:
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Oregon/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/
I really don't care if any other sites of mine ever make it into dmoz they typically don't rely too heavy on search engine traffic and the ones who do have no problem getting enough backlinks to rank high. but my "Oregon Real Estate Search" site I definitely need to be in the "Oregon Real Estate" catagory on ODP since the only sites that link to it are mostly private real estate agents in Oregon that use the site often but don't do very much internet promotion on their sites other than having my site link to them on their agents profile page.

There must have been some confusion on the status check because I couldn't possibly imagine why a well designed 1,500+ page site 100% dedicated to providing 3rd party, non profit, unbiased, and informative real estate listings for strictly the state of Oregon could be rejected from the "Oregon Real Estate" catagory. Technically by all submission guidelines and ODP FAQs I have read, RealtyInOregon.com,OIP.net, and or.realtorplace.com are the ONLY websites that even truely belong in that catagory. The rest are either duplicate content among 100's of domains(I.E search engine spammers), link farms, affilliate link sites, or belong in the localities section.

I hope I didn't accidently resubmit a site that was still waiting review. That would push me further down the list and I'd have to wait another 6 months. Eitherway I will request another detailed status check at the proper time since my math was off early this morning. However if it was rejected could you please post any noted reasons why so I may fix them.

Thanks for all your help,
Eli

Everything that has to be said was already said. The site has been checked several times, and there is nothing more to add here.

We don't judge the design. We won't even count the pages. We'll just check for unique content.

But that's not as much fun to do for a real estate directory as for some other kinds of sites, and it's often not as profitable -- so many of the realtors are already listed in the ODP, or don't have content worth listing anyway, so it's not a submittal that can jump up and down saying "pick me!"

IIRC, you said or implied you were pulling from the state realty organization -- that would probably be considered good content, once we figured out that was where it was coming from, and once we figured out it wasn't otherwise available on the web, and once we went through enough of the sites to get a feel for whether (1) the ODP already had most of them, and the best thing would be to just suck out (and list) the rest, or (2) the directory really had an alternative feed that was likely to be updated more effectively than the ODP and therefore represented a chance to be a source with continuing value.

Obviously, the editors who read this forum AREN'T going to be the ones who volunteer to check all that, so whatever you say about the site here won't be taken into consideration. Only what's on the site would matter.

Resubmitting a site (to the same category) doesn't affect your chance at a review much, or in any particular deterministic or time-defined way. Basically, you can't manipulate an editor for the better at all, nor much for the worse.
No, we won't respond if the site is rejected. <rhetorical>What good could it possibly do us?</rhetorical> On the other hand, what abuse it can let us in for!