Submission of biblestudyonjesuschrist.com

Hello, my name is Don Frank and I recently submitted my site www.biblestudyonjesuschrist.com for inclusion in your directory under Society > Religion and Spirituality > Christianity > Bible > Bible Study > By Character.

I remember finding a screen about a month ago where it said I could also e-mail the Editor for the directory to which I'm submitting the site, but now I can't find the screen. So I'm including my comments about the site here. Please pass this along to the appropriate Editor, and let me know when this is done. Please let me know the current status of the submission too:


Site Title: Bible Study on Jesus Christ

Description: Offers the teachings of Jesus and how they interrelate. Follow your interests and always be on a path of related Christian teachings. An innovative online Bible study.

My Email Address: dfrank@worduniverse.com


I spent about 10 years developing www.biblestudyonjesuschrist.com. For the past month or more, it’s been averaging at least 150 visitors a day (based on Urchin statistics), and it is still on the rise (yesterday had 301 visitors). The site is hosted through Verio and there are no pop-windows or advertisements.

The site is comprised of about 475 very content rich pages, and the keyword density on the home page is good. There are thousands of links between pages, and almost every page has a link to the home page (the half dozen or that don’t do not need to be ranked).

Here are a few more facts about the site:

* I have received many e-mails containing positive comments about the site. Here's one that came yesterday:

Dear Don,
My name is Catherine Love and I have just received a forward of the e-mail that you sent to www.tcc.org.au I have been a part of tcc for 12 months and I am currently haveing trouble with my walk with the lord. Due to having trouble I with the help of a dear christian friend have begun the K.Y.B study and on the first day there was only the two of us and we prayed hard that God would lead to us others in need of the knowledge the K.Y.B study would bring and on the second study we had 6 new woman with us and we are now a new small group within our communitty. I will be sending your e-mail to each of the woman I study with in hope that they are able to gain strength and knowledge from the site you have created as we are having struggles with our walk.

I feel that God bought you to our site for many reasons and one of thoes is that the woman that are struggling at home by themselves can now jump on line and view your site and gain strength.

God Bless you and thank you.


* biblestudyonjesuschrist.com was accepted into Yahoo Directory in December, 2001 (the one with the $299 application fee).

* 41 sites that link to biblestudyonjesuschrist.com are in your Google Open Directory Project listings. They are shown in the 1st list below.

* 16 sites that link to biblestudyonjesuschrist.com are not in your Google Open Directory Project listings, but are very highly ranked when doing a normal Google Web search on basic keywords like Christian and Christianity. They are shown in the 2nd list below.

Please consider adding biblestudyonjesuschrist.com to your Google Open Directory Project under Society>Religion and Spirituality>Christianity>Bible>Bible Study>By Character, the character being Jesus Christ. I am very interested in any comments and suggestions you have concerning the site. I have a lot of respect for Google, it’s about the only search engine I use. It’s truly amazing how very quickly I can find out just about anything I need to know, and can get enough info from different sources to make a good assessment. It’s great!


Websites Listed In Google Open Directory Project That Link To biblestudyonjesuschrist.com

www.kjvbible.org
www.fishthe.net
www.christianapologetic.org
www.hispowerportal.com
www.thewhyman.jesusanswers.com
www.ccunetwork.net
www.seekthetruth.net
www.cbd-search.com
www.jesusjournal.com
www.active-ss.com
www.christiansphere.com
www.chritech.com
www.christnotes.org
www.themissionary.net
www.biblestudynotes.org
www.christianactivities.com
www.saviorquest.com
www.christianity.com
www.somebodycares4u.com
www.christianportal.com
www.1way2god.net
www.digitracts.com
www.crossdaily.com
www.fillthevoid.org/apologetics/apologeticspage.html
www.crosssearch.com
www.gospeloutreach.net
www.homewithgod.com
www.psalm121.ca
www.jesuslinks.net
www.spiritual-answers.com
www.ncubator.com
www.stormtight.com
www.praize.com
www.theologyonline.com
www.robslinks.com
www.webauthors.org
www.uk-christians.org.uk
www.servehim.com
www.tbcl.com
www.netministries.org
www.worldchristian.net


Websites Highly Ranked By Google Web But Not In Google Open Directory Project That Link To biblestudyonjesuschrist.com

www.yahwehnet.com
www.christian-index.com
www.worthylinks.com
www.fni.com
www.biblesearchengine.com
www.free4submit.com
www.christsites.com
www.gentle.org
www.christianlink.com
www.olympicpc.com
www.2befriends.com
www.ultimatetopsites.com/religion/dfw023
www.anointedlinks.com
www.searchchristianity.com
www.christianparadise.com
www.christiantopsites.com

I'm sure you mean well but that is so much more information than an editor needs to review your site. It doesn't matter to us (a) who hosts you, (b) how many people link to you and/or who they are, or (c) how many visitors and/or positive feedbacks you get. We just care about the content.

I'd also like to take a moment remind everyone (since this is the second time today that I've seen this said) that the ODP is not Google's ODP or the Google Open Directory Project. While Google makes use of the ODP data, it doesn't own it and it has no responsibility for it. You'd be correct to call us the ODP, the Open Directory Project, the Netscape Open Directory Project, and any number of other things but not the Google Open Directory Project.

Having said that, your site has been listed in http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Evangelism/Christianity_for_Seekers/Bible_Studies since October. Your recent submissions to the category you mentioned have been deleted since you are already listed appropriately.

My humblest apologies. Thank you for enlightening me, had looked for but not found the site listing in the past; now I see it. It is great to see the site listed in ODP.