Status of www.bestdietpills.com

Please let me know the status of

http://www.bestdietpills.com

Submitted To the Following category:

http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Weight_Loss/

Thanks
Olivia

oliviaf@gmail.com

I googled one quite complex phrase, in quote marks, from the site and got 58,000 matches. What's your reckoning of the site's eligibility?

not much, but hey cant hurt to try

but hey cant hurt to try

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Oh but it does. Most of the reasons for long delays for reviews for legitimate original high quality sites is because of this attitude. Some editors, myself included, now spend 90% or more of our time holding back the tide of timewasting suggestions. Stick to suggesting only eligible sites Olivia please and those ones might just stand a better chance.

very well, but i do actually think that my site offers useful content for users, otherwise I wouldn't spend the time making the site.

I wouldn't have suggested the site if I didn't think it had a chance at all of being listed.

It's your right to make your site however you want, to serve your purposes.

But the ODP submittal process is really for people who want to help ODP editors find sites that meet our criteria, which emphasises the bit about "unique".

"Nobody is denying that some of the content you have is useful, and some of it is original. It's just that the editor didn't find anything that was both." And that could be the fault of your navigation, or an inherent aspect of your focus, or even editor error. Unless you have some inherent authoritative knowledge of the subject (greater than could be gained by googling the subject), our assumption (that it is NOT the latter) is the right one to make, and it's the one you should expect us to make.

I do understand the ODP criteria, as I have had sites listed before.

I do understand that editors are donating there free time to help build a resourceful and unique directory, which I appreciate.

Be certain that a site meets the criteria not just that there is a chance. In most categories now, "a chance", when that is your assessment, almost certainly means no chance in our assessment. Be objective, and hard on your own sites before suggesting them. In checking for your site I rid that category of about 100 pure rubbish suggestions. You can imagine how much time that wasted when I could have been listing schools and hospitals and community groups and garden centres and people with highly original products to sell that no-one else has yet offered on the Internet.

I have a site myself I am intensely proud of, unique content researched and written myself, nothing even close (in my opinion) in terms of quality (which is why I thought it needed to be done) and which, according to the site stats, must be being used as a Home page on a dozen or so browsers. Yet I still don't think it is good enough for DMOZ. One day maybe.