Submitted a Site 2 years ago but nothing happen

lewing · Sep 28, 2009

We submit our site (URL removed) 2 years ago, there are many original articles about oil painting technique and 300 odd artists' biography, is much helpful for users, but nothing happen after 2 years. By contraries, many commercial websites has poor content were listed. It's a little strange and make us feel frustrated ....

lazysloth · Sep 28, 2009

same same same

jimnoble · Sep 28, 2009

same same same

Indeed. We seem to get the same complaints every day.

Perhaps our FAQ (linked above) will provide the answer.

jimnoble · Sep 28, 2009

This seems to be an opportune moment to remind website suggesters of our suggestion guidelines. Every time that somebody suggests that we list a website, they acknowledge that they've read and agreed them.

They require that a website be suggested just once to the one best category and outline the penalties that can be applied should they be declined. Now OK, there is some leeway on this because we're all human here, I think, and we recognise that people sometimes make a mistake that need to be corrected. However, we can readily tell the difference between correcting an error and spamming. The latter isn't tolerated. At all.

lewing · Sep 30, 2009

once the best category?

Thaks for the explanation by you, please check this category http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/People_and_Society/Biography/Artists/

There are 378 artists under this category, we have almost all biography of the 378 artists, one separate web page for each artist's biography, can we submit all of our 378 web pages to the categories of the 378 artists?

In fact, many websites are listed many times due to this situation, like ibiblio.org

pvgool · Sep 30, 2009

lewing said:
can we submit all of our 378 web pages to the categories of the 378 artists?

Absolutely not. You are allowed to suggest a website once.

In fact, many websites are listed many times due to this situation, like ibiblio.org

An editor can decide to list a site more than once.

hutcheson · Sep 30, 2009

ibiblio.org is one of the top 3 or 4 hosts on the web. It's sort of like a Geocities for high-profile information-technology nonprofits (some of whom have tens of thousands of individual contributors each), with extensive support from major academic and industry organizations.

Definitely, there should be more ibiblio links in the Open Directory. There's no comparison between it and even the largest personal website.

A less unconscionably unreasonable comparison would be with cyberhymnal, one of the largest personal websites. It contains thousands of biographies, many available nowhere else online--and even that's a sideline to its main content. But it only has 63 directory links. And I don't believe any of those links were suggested by the website owner. It got its reputation (and its links) not by self-promotion but by building content--consistently, daily--for over 10 years.

pvgool · Oct 1, 2009

I wonder if people do read the answers we provide.

lencarifin · Oct 1, 2009

Same with me, 1 years ago,i've tried to submit my website,

<url removed>, but always rejected or no response,why?
can you tell me the details about guidelines?
what about my website, what's wrong with it?
hi admin, please give me good solutions for my website, i got something to sell, pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeee

nea · Oct 1, 2009

lencarifin, please read the previous posts in this thread, in particular jimnoble's #3.

Please note that in this forum we do not provide site reviews and don't discuss specific sites, which is why I removed the URL from your post.

lencarifin · Oct 1, 2009

nea said:
lencarifin, please read the previous posts in this thread, in particular jimnoble's #3.

Please note that in this forum we do not provide site reviews and don't discuss specific sites, which is why I removed the URL from your post.

yes nea, can you tell what's wrong with my site? because you're the best editor that i've seen so please answer my question, please

nea · Oct 1, 2009

That is kind of you to say so, but it doesn't change the fact that we do not discuss specific sites in this forum. It's a forum rule.

The ODP guidelines for which sites are listed in the directory are publically available here in several languages: http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html . You can see for yourself if your site is of the type we list. If it is, then the most likely reason why it's not visible in the directory is simply that no editor has yet reviewed it. There is no time limit or schedule for editors to review sites suggested by the public, and site suggestions don't disappear until an editor has reviewed the site.

So there is no reason to suppose that there is anything wrong with your site. It may still be waiting for review. I'm afraid there is no way to speed up that process.

jimnoble · Oct 1, 2009

@nea for her serene patience when surrounded by those without it :flower:

lencarifin · Oct 1, 2009

somebody help me

jimnoble · Oct 1, 2009

You're asking for a service that we don't provide here. You've already been pointed at general info that adequately answers general questions about listability and time scales. Please refer to it.

There are millions of anxious website owners out there. We can't answer every one of them in detail which is why we don't try. There's no reason why we should make an exception for you.

(You'd have hated the version that I almost wrote)

lewing · Oct 15, 2009

after dup submission

We already submitted our large website to some subdirectories of dmoz already, how should we do now? Wait some time to submit again and only once?

jimnoble · Oct 15, 2009

You need do absolutely nothing - except perhaps actually read the Suggestion Guidelines. They explain that a website should be suggested just once to the one best category. They also outline the remedies that we can apply should they be ignored.

It follows that needless re-suggestions might not achieve the effect that you're hoping for.

Just a minute! I said all that in item #4 of this thread in reply to your original question. Did you not notice?

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