Status of Site www.dynmark.com

Hello,

I appreciate everyone is very busy but I have followed your guidelines to submit our company site to your directory over two months ago now but it still has not appreared.

It was submitted to - Business: Telecommunications: Services: Wireless: Software: SMS.

I would be extremely grateful if someone could let me know if it is pending a review or if I should resubmit it.

Many thanks indeed and keep up the good work. The web needs more sites like this.

Kindest regards,

Oscar Jenkins
Dynmark International

Just making the link clickable http://dmoz.org/Business/Telecommunications/Services/Wireless/Software/SMS/

Are we now listed?

Hi Miromulus,

Does this mean we are now listed? I'm probably missing something but I can't see our listing?? You advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Oscar.

Site still not listed

Hi,

Our site still does not seem to be listed. Is there a problem with our site? Pleas elet me know so that we can address any queries or problems you may have.

Many thanks,

Oscar
Dynmark International
www.dynmnark.com
www.e-txt.co.uk

You have two domains and you've submitted both to the same category. That's a pretty flagrant abuse of the submission guidelines that you agreed to during the process don't you think?

Help needed with listing sites

Dear Jim,

Thanks for your note in response to my query. I apologise if I have missed something in your submission Guidelines. I did read them thoroughly before submitting and have read them again following your explanation as to why we have not been listed and can not see what I have done wrong.

We are a company that produces software for sending and receiving text messages. I would like to submit for listing both our corporate site and a product site. The corporate site provides general details on our company as a whole and includes a brief single page concerning e-txt which is our premier product. The second site is for e-txt our product and contains information only specific to e-txt. Granted there is some commonality with press coverage and press releases but as a company we tend to put the product information on the product site and the corporate information on the corporate site. There is no overlap in terms of product marketing or information.

I genuinely felt that the information I submitted (both sites) for listing is a fair representation of our company as a whole. Listing two sites was not intended as a tactic to gather more coverage and if this falls foul of your rules, I hope I will be given the opportunity and advice as to how I should go about listing correctly. Obviously I did not intend any subterfuge as I submitted both sites, to the same category, on the same day as the same user.

The category to which I have submitted both sites is the most appropriate for both as users looking for information about us and for a text messaging application, I think would navigate to the same section in both circumstances.

I would appreciate your advice as to how I may progress my listings.

Kindest regards,

Oscar.

Dear Oscar

We don't list sites for individual products generally, only the main site of a company.

In your case, all the information on the e-txt product is available by looking at your company's products on the dynmark site, so we would only list the dynmark one. The fact that you've chosen to host the information on that particular product on a different domain, rather than on a page on the dynmark domain, doesn't change the way the guidelines view it. e.g. It is effectively a deeplink of dynmark.com

The e-txt submission has therefore been deleted, and will not be listed.

The dynmark submission is in the queue awaiting review by an editor. If you wish to do so, you may request a further status check on it 6 months from now (in line with the guidelines for these forums.)

Kind Regards,

Andy

Adding to the Dynmark Site

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the steer and the help. It is greatly appreciated.

Would it be within the rules for us to add the content from our e-txt site to our Dynmark site so that we offered more information to visitors to Dynmark about e-txt, without breaking any of your rules?

I certainly don't want to upset things now that we have got this far.

Many thnaks again for your help.

Oscar.

We only list sites - we don't tell people how to structure them. Obviously you are free to include however much or as little information on your products as you choose - and to place that information on whatever domain you choose.

I guess in terms of ODP "content is king" or specifically "unique content". So the more unique content you have on your site, the better your chances of a listing when it is eventually reviewed.

But my advice would be to focus on your customers. If adding some content to a section of your site would help them, then it's probably a good idea to do it. After all they are the important ones.

If you produce a site that is well designed and provides all the information about your products that your customers would want, and is organised in an easily navigable way, and that excludes stuff that they don't want (like popup adverts etc) then your site will probably end up meeting dmoz guidelines by default, because editors are basically just average joe members of the public

If you want some ideas on what sort of things we don't look for, this category is amusing:

http://dmoz.org/Bookmarks/R/rpfuller/How_Not_to_Design_a_Web_Site/

Help greatly appreciated

Hi again,

THanks for the guidlines. It sounds as though we have a site that will mmet yours and our custoemrs requirements.

Cheers,

Oscar.

If you link from your corporate site to your various product sites, no visitor will care whether they're on the same domain name. And, when it gets down to it, our requirements ARE (as near as we can conceive of them) the same as your customers'.