Re: Submission to two Categories that are very sim
Please go read the submittal guidelines at
http://dmoz.org/add.html again. When it says "Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites" please think of it as referring precisely and exactly to cases such as your two sites.
We'd list one of the sites. Since the brandname URL is more comprehensive than the keyword-stuffed URL, we will strongly favor listing it. If we list it multiple times, we will VERY strongly listing it under the same name each time.
You will greatly oblige us and help your cause (i.e. avoid removal of ALL sites related to you) by working within these guidelines.
As has been mentioned, we don't care about what the search engines do, and they don't care what we think about them. So any of your motives related to search engines are by definition ulterior, and our guidelines absolutely forbid us to take them into account. You will oblige us and help your own cause by keeping them to yourself.
Now as for having two listings: I'm not a heavy Photographic editor, and whether your site (under the same name, of course, so you look like an honest businessman rather than a fly-by-night sneaky spammer) might be listed in both places depends on the local editors' judgment, and that is based on experience at reviewing thousands of photography sites. If you had no previous reputation as a spammer, then submitting once to each of those two sites would not be perceived as a problem. The editors would review the site twice, and list it as many times as they thought appropriate (which could be zero, one, two, or more!) If you've already developed a reputation for aggressive submittals, then the editors would be justified in saying, "this spammer has already been reviewed and listed" and deleting the submittal forthwith.
Looking at the rap sheet, your record looks worse than it really is (some of the submittals were caught in the spam filter, which we know was not your fault). The site is still waiting in the Architectural category but not in the Commercial-Advertising category. You can probably get away with resubmitting to Commercial/Advertising.
You may in addition wish to add a note to the editor in brackets [if possible I would prefer this site bla bla bla].
What can you say to the editor that will make sense and not just irritate them. DON'T ask for search engine placement, and DON'T push multiple domain names for the same site. And I'll add: DON'T demand (or even ask for) multiple listings. (Remember: how can you "get" multiple listings? You can't even "get" ONE listing. All we promise ANYONE is a site review!) What you can say is something like: "[please observe, as you review this site, that our primary business is XXX, although we do a lot of YYY. If we can only have one listing, we'd prefer it in category XXX: but category YYY is different enough, and photographers who can handle both are rare enough, that we think listing in both categories would serve users.]" And remember that the editors' judgment BASED ON THE SITE CONTENTS (and not any preferences you have that conflict with that) will be what determines if and where the site is listed. So make sure before you resubmit that what you need to say about the site is really true (and stays true after the site is listed.)
Of course, if it is NOT TRUE that the site emphasizes (or at least gives equal billing to) XXX, or if it is NOT TRUE that few people cross the great gulph between architectural and commercial photography -- then don't say it: this is information-passing, not marketroidish-deceit. But this is a kind of reasoning might be considered valid and relevant (and might be active for your particular sites.)
