Submitting Multiple Pages From Same Site

Hi,

Great resource you've created here, sorry I never found it sooner!

Here's my question: I have a website which contains many pages from an event in history, and many pages could be submitted to seperate categories I'm sure. If a website was about pop stars for example, what's to stop you having each individual page submitted to the respective category, ie, Britney, Christina etc?

Thanks in advance!

Andy C said:

what's to stop you having each individual page submitted to the respective category, ie, Britney, Christina etc?

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Our guidlines are stopping you

pvgool]Our [URL=http://dmoz.org/guidelines/]guidlines[/URL said:

are stopping you

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Or maybe they are helping me...

Sites that have true research value and/or cover a number of different subjects across the directory to such a degree that one category isn't sufficient in describing the site's contents.

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My website could be considered as such, although the pop star analogy was poor, I accept!

Actually, I do have my main domain, plus two other pages listed listed in Dmoz, I was wondering about adding more. Is it down to Editors' discretion then?

If editors decide that a site is worth deeplinking to, then editors will go ahead and do it.

A submitter who suggests deeplink after deeplink runs the risk of being labelled a spammer.

Find the single best category for your site, use the "Suggest URL" tool to submit it, then promptly forget about it.

<added>That is, if it's not already listed.</added>

Just a comment...

Andy, keep in mind that the content your site offers is looked at in relation to content available on the Internet.

The example you used (pop stars) is actually a good one to illustrate the way editors handle it. There are hundreds upon hundreds of sites that have a page (or pages) about any given pop star. With so many resources most of the information is overlapped, so it's not unique. At that point an editor is looking for sites where the level of content exceeds the 'dime a dozen' type-sites.

In the same breath, if the topic is not so extensively covered, the amount of sources are less so the competition is not as heated. If the site has information about a celeb that is not today's "hot property," the depth of content is still considered against what is available. In these cases, I've found the interest in these folks is on the "fan site" level so the content is usually pretty good. The large mega sites, if they even mention the person, will probably only have a brief bio, usually and edited version of the one available from the celeb's "Official" site.

The ODP submission guidelines suggest "one category." I have always thought it is this way because if your site has a wealth of information on a secondary topic(s), editors will find it and list it. After all, people that volunteer to edit like adding sites, want to list a lot of quality sources and build extensive topic categories. Whether or not the source of the information is a deeplink (or sub-page, or whatever you want to call it) is not a factor. It's the content that's considered.

Hope this helps...

Thanks!

Actually, one of the sub-pages appeared magically without any input from me, perhaps an editor did this?

The other sub-page was me 'trying it on' so to speak, but I haven't gone and submitted any more, it was just a test really.

Update: I've submitted a fourth page from my site, as I believe it to be worthwhile, I'll see how it goes!!

... so it looks like, in spite of the advice you asked for and got in this thread, you are going ahead and doing the opposite anyway....

Yes, we'll see how it goes....

"Sites that have true research value and/or cover a number of different subjects across the directory to such a degree that one category isn't sufficient in describing the site's contents."

I can honestly say that's the case

PS I have noticed gaming websites with tons of individual links from Dmoz to multiple pages to the same domain.

You are confusing the opinion of the submitter/site owner with that of the editors.

You were told to submit ONCE and, if the editors regarded it as a resource that should be deeplinked, they would. The deeplinks of the gaming sites were done by editors, not submitters.

Nevertheless, it appears that you know better.... In the future, if you are going to ignore advice given when you don't like it, it would save everyone's time if you didn't bother asking for it.

Sites that have true research value and/or cover a number of different subjects across the directory to such a degree that one category isn't sufficient in describing the site's contents.

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I read that and hear "Go ahead!" We're talking four pages, and I must admit I'd be hard-pushed to submit anymore of the 300+ static pages my website has, but it's there in the guidelines.

Yes, but the guidelines are general. You asked specific questions about your site (or type of site) and were given specific advice which you chose to ignore.

Well, whether the 4th page gets into the Directory or not, you can rest assured that I won't be trying anymore, the pages are too similar.