Status of www.lblossom.com

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Could you please tell me about the status of the submission of Lotus Blossom Inc. to DMOZ. Our web address is www.lblossom.com

I submitted www.lblossom.com to this category
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Beauty/Bath_and_Body/
on these dates:
03/02/28
03/04/20
03/05/19
We think that we should be listed in this category, since our product line covers a range of bath and body products, including handmade soaps. Since this category has no editor, on 03/05/19 I volunteered to edit it, but my application was turned down (category too well represented or category too large for a new editor).
As of 03/06/09 we are not listed in this category.

I submitted www.lblossom.com to this category
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Crafts/Toiletries/
on these dates:
03/04/20
03/05/19 (after receiving an error on over 50 attempts I gave up, so I may not have submitted on this date)
If it is possible, we think we should be listed in this category, too.
As of 03/06/09 we are not listed in this category.

I submitted www.lblossom.com to this category
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Beauty/Bath_and_Body/Soap/Handmade/
on these dates:
03/04/20
03/05/19
We were just listed in this category - thank you. It is a good category for us since about half of our products are handmade soaps. However, when I search for "Lotus Blossom", or "Bath and Body", or "lblossom.com", or "decorative soaps" our listing is not returned in the search results. I don't know if it is because our listing is so new that it hasn't been indexed yet, or if it is because of a bug, but this is one of the items I would like to follow up.

So far I have not heard from anyone at DMOZ about the categories we are not listed in, either positive or negative. I don't know if we should be following up on those listings in DMOZ, or if a decision has been made that we will only be listed in the http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Beauty/Bath_and_Body/Soap/Handmade/ category.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that on the page
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Beauty/Bath_and_Body/
the "Soap" link shows that there are 0 listings, so no one will press that link. If you follow that link, though, there are 464 listing. Perhaps there is a bug and your system thinks there are no items on the tree below "soap", and therefore it does not index those "non-existant" pages. This might be why we are not listed in the index.

Thank you for your help.
 

nea

Meta & kMeta
Curlie Meta
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As you noticed, you are listed in Shopping/Health/Beauty/Bath_and_Body/Soap/Handmade. Shopping web sites only get one listing unless they sell very varied merchandise — say, if you sold soap and bicycle helmets. You were listed on May 5, but the search index has not been rebuilt for some time due to an ongoing hardware upgrade; as soon as it is rebuilt you will be able to search for it. (Remember however that DMOZ search is mostly used by editors and seldom by the general public.)

The wrong count of sites is a known bug, and it will also be dealt with as soon as the hardware upgrade is done.

Cheers,
-nea <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
 
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