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spectregunner

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We cannot give you a status check until you follow the forum guidelines and provide us with a clickable link to the category where yo made your submission.

also, be sure that at least 30 days have passed since you made your most recent submission.
 
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hutcheson

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Waiting review. You can check back here in six months if you haven't seen it listed.

If you are in a hurry to promote the site, you might want to be considering other promotional venues in the meantime. Usually we can't predict when a site will be reviewed; I would expect this one to be unusually unpredictable.
 
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behindthebr

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Thanks for the response hutcheson - I will keep checking back then.

Can you explain why you put "I would expect this one to be unusually unpredictable."?

Why does my site differ from others waiting to be reviewed?

Thanks again
Lee
 
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behindthebr

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Thank you for your reply dogbows.

After I received post number 5 I did ask as to why my site would be "unusually unpredictable." but did not get a response?

As Hutchenson wrote in post number 5:
"Usually we can't predict when a site will be reviewed; I would expect this one to be unusually unpredictable."

I'm just curious as to why my site would be unusually unpredictable compared to other sites waiting for review as it's just a simple holiday review site?

Thanks for your help
Lee
 
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I'm just curious as to why my site would be unusually unpredictable compared to other sites waiting for review as it's just a simple holiday review site?
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Well, if you really wanted to know you should have sent the editor who said it a pm back in July, even he might not know why he said it now. (If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's because it's a directory. We get a lot of content poor directories submitted, and we have high standards.)

As for a status check, it's really not necessary to ask for one every 6 months. If you are in the queue, you can expect the site to be reviewed eventually. However, we do allow follow-ups, because sometimes mistakes are made.

If you do want another status check, we do require you wait a minimum of 6 months.

For you that would be waiting until after January 6, 2005.
 
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hutcheson

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Yeah, I don't remember saying that, but it's obvious enough why.

We are a directory. It doesn't help our users to add directories unless they are more comprehensive than we are. What we prefer to do is mine them for links, and THEN it doesn't help our users to add them unless they are better maintained than we are (which hardly any of them are. The practical result is that reviewing directories isn't a particular productive use of our time -- very very few of them are even half as large as the ODP, and most of their listings are either duplicates or unlistable.

Most of the time it makes more sense for the other directories just to link to us.
 
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behindthebr

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Thanks hutchenson and Sole for the quick reply.

My site is not a directory though. I do have a useful links section to relevant holiday websites but my site is based on people submitting holiday reviews of their own to help other people make the right choice when booking a holiday.

I hope this helps when coming to review my site - I'll keep checking and if I don't see anything then I'll submit another status request in the new year.

I didn't mean to be pushy it's just that obviously getting listed in a directory like ODP is such a big thing for a site like mine to help it grow.

Thanks again
Lee
 
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behindthebr

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Hi,

Can you let me know the status of my site being reviewed please? I initially posted the first request in June last year. Since then there have been a number of messages posted.

There was a mention that the reason it was taking so long is because my site is a directory. When you review my site please note that it ISN'T a directory but a website that lets real holiday makers post real life reviews of their experiences. I have a useful links section but this is just for resources for the uers.

There are other sites that do the same as my site that have already been approved such as:
http://www.realholidayreports.com/

I was told to check back on the 6th of January so would appreciate if anyone can help?

Thanks
Lee.
 
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Your suggestion is still awaiting review. We can't predict when that might be. If it hasn't been listed in 6 months, please ask again in this same thread.

It hasn't been reviewed yet because nobody has volunteered to do so.
 
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behindthebr

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Thanks for the quick response Jim.

Is this normal to still be waiting for review after 6 months? From the replies that I have had it looks like some people have looked at my site just not reviewed it.

Is there anyway that I can get someone to review it? It's just that when I originally posted my site to DMOZ I was told it could take up to a month to get reviewed, it then went to 6 months and now you have said I should post another request in this thread in another 6 months which will be a full year.

I apologies if I seem persistent or pushy as I dont mean to be but I'm sure you can imagine how important it is to get listed in DMOZ and how much this can improve your site.

Thanks again
Lee
 
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Is there anyway that I can get someone to review it? It's just that when I originally posted my site to DMOZ I was told it could take up to a month to get reviewed, it then went to 6 months and now you have said I should post another request in this thread in another 6 months which will be a full year.
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The timings are the gaps between status update requests, not estimates as to when the site will be reviewed. Reviews can take 2 minutes to 2 years, maybe more. See the FAQs on this site for an explanation. And no, there is no way a review can be speeded up, it happens when it happens. But then most of these questions have already been answered in this thread...
 
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behindthebr

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hi - is there anyway of knowing if an editor is active or not?
As you can see my site has been waiting for a long time to get reviewed, which I do understand that it can take some time so I am trying to wait patiently but I have also tried to contact the editor via the contact form at the bottom of the category I am trying to get my site into and have not had any response?

I am trying to get submitted into: http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Guides_and_Directories/

If editors aren't active is there anyway or someone else reviewing a site?

Thanks for your help.
Lee
 
bobrat

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hi - is there anyway of knowing if an editor is active or not?
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NO

Even if we told you, I'm not sure what difference it makes. If "the editor" is not active, that's his business, nobody will force him to become active. If an editor stops editing, then eventually he times out and stops being an editor.

Anyway, another editor may come along and review a site even if an editor does not edit for a coupl of months. I do it all the time - I end up working in categories that have a named editor, where I know the editor has taken a break [In one case he went on a long vacation] and reviewing sites there.

If editors aren't active is there anyway or someone else reviewing a site?
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See above. But editors generally won't go and review a specific site because it was posted in this forum
 
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hutcheson

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No, there's no way to affect editor priorities relating to sites within a category. And that's important to us.

There's also not much of a way to affect editor priorities related to one category versus another. Travel Directories are, unfortunately, under continual mass distributed-denial-of-service attack by hotel-rezzing (or airline-ticketing or rental-car) affiliate spammers, so there's only so much of that one editor can stand at a time.

As always (not just in spam-targeted categories) make your site promotion plans based on the assumption of not having an ODP listing: and if the site is listed, your work will still be accumulative of whatever help the ODP listing gives.
 
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behindthebr

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OK thanks Bobrat, I'll keep my fingers crossed that the editor gets round to my site then or if another editor comes along and reviews it in the meantime.

Please feel free if you have the time :) Only kidding thanks for replying.

Lee
 
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