ishtar said:
I didn't read your post very carefully because what I see is a webmaster whose only concern is getting as many links as possible. That's not what we're here to do. A submitter should submit his/her site to the most appropriate category. Editors are given more freedom in listing deeplinks, and listing sites in multiple categories. [Note: 'Site' is not the same this a 'domain'. A 'domain' may contain many 'sites', like geocities. And a 'site' can contain many 'domains'.]
Thanks for waiting for that reply before submitting your site.
Editors want to list sites with the most unique and comprehensive information available. Have you compared your page on flags to the best site in the flags category? If it's better than that, then we want to list your site immediately. If it's not, then there is no rush for us to add your site.
Thanks for the reply:
Oh no that could not be further from the truth, each domain is treated in our view as an independent site, if you look at the sites themselves you can see this, they do have relationships with other domains but that is purely for the user to follow if they so wish, like webmaster tool someone looking for graphics may wish to put a graphical counter on their page, but not necessarily! We have tried to cover every eventuality! There are also sponsor parts to help towards paying for the overall structure as you have already gathered most is done for free or with a simple link to improve the individual sites relevancy.
Also in some instances we could not make up our mind what to name the site, in webmaster-tool instance it was either that or webmaster-toolsite in the end we chose webmaster-tool.
But overall I get your meaning.
The category I have chosen for the flags I think suits that specific category as it’s all about the entire world flags and graphical images to suit on many countries! As for if it’s the ”best” site for this I could not say other than we have tried to make it that way, however; user response has been in preference of our flags because of the quality of the images produced and also because they are angled and not just upright, this again is a matter of choice so would have to say: you tell me? I am bound to say I would think so!
Compare:
http://www.multimediapalace.com/wff/u/gb-flag.htm
(Already listed on the intended page)
To:
http://www.webmaster-tool.co.uk/flags_001.htm
Another question:
The most general domain I have is webmaster-tool if this site was to inherit the other domains i.e. become part of webmaster-tool under a directory in it’s tree structure would this be OK, in effect I would be mirroring the site into that directory for instance:
There would be:
http://www.webmaster-tool.co.uk/free-counters/index.htm
And to suit us:
http://www.free-counters.co.uk as the static domain
Therefore free-counters as the domain would not be listed I think maybe satisfying the problem, you would then link to the webmaster tool page directly (if suitable) for the pages content etc.
I don’t know at this stage if the one server could handle it to be honest but it’s just an idea at this stage, this way there is only one domain listed in your directories!
I will give a very brief idea of the globel structure (it’s constantly being improved)
As I said before there is input and ownership from several companies and individuals something like ODP, I act as administration of all the sites as the original acorn of the idea, as my hobby expanded I needed this input to grow the overall plan! I have been lucky so far to have such a dedicated bunch.
Globel (the program part) stands completely on it’s own as Globel Limited essentually this is a robot that updates certain directories, checks links monitors and produces an overall picture of any of the group sites, it’s involvement could include the organisation of the dmoz site for instance even although it’s not part of that site directly! It operates in the background like any other software program, it is intended for the globel domain to become isolated, as webmasters usually want their sources hidden, this part is completely my project, my baby so to speak, it does not need to be listed and has several robot files in place to keep search engines out.
The modules (to name two) for instance are: webmaster-tool.co.uk or free-counters.co.uk these parts are very specific and in some cases will grow to huge sites on their specific topic and would be difficult to compound them into one site so they have their own domain so they can break off from the tree at any point, webmaster-tool for instance has grown quite considerably over the last year, at any point if a individual wants to leave this internal arrangement and has put enough input into the overall project webmaster-tool would become his/hers with a simple transfer, putting it all together under one site would make this ability at present very difficult and that’s why it cannot be done to suit ODP, i.e. free counters will consume at least two servers in months to come, this is inevitable with it’s own individual expansion rate, I expect webmaster tool to be the same as we haven’t even started on software listings like tucows that one of the members wish to do yet but it’s on the cards (overall the sites are still in their infancy).
The ideal situation would be (as you said) to put it on one site as from a Webmaster point of view the traffic ranking of that individual site would be very high, however in eventuality for our own purposes it would also become a bit of a monster very hard to segregate and in reality bad news for one server to cope with, free counters on it’s own gets thousands of hits every day from all the counters around the internet supplied by us! We have tried from a visitor’s point of view to keep the service fast.
There are a lot of projects still on the shelf at present and although long winded I hope that explains it to you a little more!
Paul
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