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Can we submit same site for eg

www.somesite.com in one directory

and submitting the same site www.somesite.com again in some other directory

If you meant directory (eg ODP, Yahoo etc), yes.
If you meant ODP category, no.

no i mean only in odp i.e dmoz.org
so it means no right

and if you find that kind of submission will you delete the site from both the category or just one category as they have broken the rules of dmoz

i had also one more query regarding subdomain

can subdomains submitted to different categories in dmoz

and if you find that kind of submission will you delete the site from both the category or just one category

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Don't try to game the system. It'll end in tears.

Subdomains are related to the root url. Don't suggest them.

This is all covered in our submission guidelines at http://dmoz.org/add.html .

> and if you find that kind of submission will you delete the site from both the category or just one category as they have broken the rules of dmoz

Normaly we will list the site once (if it is listable) and delete the other suggestion. But if you do this a lot of times to many categories you will qualify as a spammer. And we don't like spammers. Their sites might become banned.

> i had also one more query regarding subdomain
> can subdomains submitted to different categories in dmoz
No, please only suggest the main url. No subdomains. No deeplinks.

thanks pvgpool and jimnoble ... i am not at all trying to game the system but i have seen submissions listed twice in different categories. so as a normal user i thought even i can submit my suggestion twice or thrice.

And i was just wondering. sometimes sites does not get listed once, how can site be listed twice.

> i have seen submissions listed twice in different categories
Not exactly. You have seen websites listed in more than one category. An editor can decide to list a website more than once. You should not suggest a website more than once.

But there are a few exceptions
1) If your site is about a specific topic you may suggest it under that topic and if your site is also about a company located in a specific region you may suggest it also under that region (city).
2) If your site has content in more than one language you may suggest the site under all of those languages.

ok then..

thats fine

Thanks. Satisfied with your answer.

I wonder if bitsandbites understands the difference between the major Topical sections of the Directory, (like Business, Shopping, Arts) and the Regional section of the Directory (Regional) which has topical categories in it.

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i have submitted my site in a category last 7 months ago.


Dmoz submission was down for couple of months.

Then submission was accepted, then i read in one thread that you may need to resubmit your site as the dmoz submission was down. (i read this post on different site)

Then i resubmitted my site once again, but the category was not updated so i wrote a thread about it. Then one of the dmoz editor said its not harm to resubmit your site once again.


As i am learning dmoz system i have a query.
So by all of this i just mean to say, that my site would be listed as spam or not.

Editors can you please help.

If you only suggested the site once before and once after (or even twice) after the technical problems it will not be seen as spam. Certainly not if you suggested to the same category all times.

BTW it would have been helpfull if you kept all your questions in 1 thread

but alltogether i submitted it three times. i suggested my site once. then two times after technical problem.

so it will not be considered as a spam

yes thanks i understood

i have just read a thread at this url

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167881

it says over there about open directory.

To submit, locate the category you want to be listed in. Then use the "add URL" link that appears at the top of the category page. Fill out the form, and that's it -- you've submitted.

If you are accepted, you should see your site appear within about three weeks. If this doesn't happen, then you should resubmit.




i am new learner here and like me many others who want to learn and to know dmoz would obviously go on other sites like this. and if we resubmit our site once we dont see in three weeks it will be considered as spam.

I can only say 1 thing. They are wrong.
Do not suggest a site again just because it isn't reviewed in a specific amount of time.
The least that will happen is that you might make the time between first suggestion and review longer. The worst that might happen is that you eventualy will be marked as a spammer and you and all your sites will be banned.
No, there is no rule after how many suggestions you will be marked as a spammer.

thanks pvgpool

one more query. if a site is ban or a user is ban, is it ban for a lifetime or a specific period of time for eg 1 year or 2 years

As far as I know: life
But you must have been a realy naughty boy to get such a ban. Any normal person with a website should not be afraid to be banned. So, stop worrying.

this query was just for knowledge base. i dont really want to get ban

Thanks pvgpool

First of all, we don't ban "users". Never have and almost certainly never will. It's very important that this be understood. Anyone may always "use" the Open Directory (that is, either pick up the data and publish it according to the license; or browse the data as published at dmoz.org or elsewhere).

People who do those things are users, and they aren't banned. Clear?

Now, CONTRIBUTORS can be (and are) banned. And this would include either editors or suggestors. If someone is wasting the volunteers' time cleaning up after useless (or abusive) actions, then we're better off without them, forever. The ban is not to punish the jerk, and we can't punish the jerk. All we can tell him is that we don't need his help, and he doesn't have privileges to help anymore. The ban is just to protect the volunteers.

Now, site bans are different. And there, almost nothing is forever. The fact is, domain names expire and get picked up by some other person. And it may be the same name but it's not the same site. Again, we care nothing about punishing ordinary spammers. All we want is to be free to work on OUR goals without them BOTHERING us. For the most part a "ban" means "this site has already been reviewed enough. No volunteer never needs to feel an obligation to ever review it again." But that's not really a "ban" just a "designated bother." An editor can still visit the site if he wishes, or even discuss with other editors why it should or shouldn't be listed.

(But don't ever buy a domain name from someone who tried to threaten or bribe an editor...)

There aren't really rules, except (as I think Jim mentioned) "He who games the system, loses." And that because the ODP is a social process and being a jerk is just flat not a socially effective strategy. It's not because there's a rule against being a jerk.