Too much info... ?

Hello everyone,

My name is Cory. I created a web site which I submitted for review by dmoz. The specific web site is not important, so I am not listing it here. I am wanting to ask a general question which will help more than just myself.

When I designed the web site in question, I decided that since the company only sold a few products (15 - 20), I would list them all on the main index page. Thereby making it possible for the customer to see everything the company offered and the respective descriptions on a single page.

However, I am wonder if the convenience I am providing to the customers is causing my site to be overlooked by not only dmoz but other search engines as well? Yahoo and a few other web bots seem to like the site, however, I noticed in my server logs that a dmoz editor had viewed the site, but it wasn't listed.

The purpose of this post is to determine if there is anything I can do on my end to change the site so that it might suit an editor if it were looked at again.

I did apply for editor in the section and was promptly denied. I am assuming this was due to my affiliation with the company that I built the web site for and I completely understand.

In summary, my post is geared in asking the following questions.

1. Is having more than one product on a page a problem? Even if the products are related.
2. Is page size a factor when considering a potential site for listing?
3. Is there a place where one can find information on how to build web sites so that they are dmoz friendly?

Let me thank you guys in advance for your time. I do realize that you are offering your services for free.

1. Do you mean a problem for dmoz? Not at all. See below.

2. No, unless the page size is such that it causes problems for users. See below.

3. How to build web sites that are dmoz friendly? I can answer that in four words: Build them user friendly.

Our editors attempt to look at pages from the user's perspective. Since we're web users when we're not editing, we usually succeed in this.

Okay. Well thanks for your time anyway. I guess I will wait it out and see if I get listed anyway. I was just asking to see if I had unknowingly done something that would get a site overlooked.

By making my question general I had hoped that I could get more insite as to why any site might get turned down, hence helping anyone else that may have the same question.

Thanks again,

Cory

Our guidelines are a public document and they really tell you everything that you need to know.

Try looking here.

The basic reason a site gets turned down is: the editor can't find significant relevant unique information on the subject.

Relevant -- has to be about the subject
Unique -- either the information, the perspective on it, or the authoritativeness of it, is not available on any other website.
Significant -- we won't list a whole website for one factoid.
Information -- not advertising, promotional, pre-sales, or any other form of marketing-like persuasion.

With this in mind, there really aren't any questions we've been asked, that don't have immediately obvious answers.

spectregunner said:

Our guidelines are a public document and they really tell you everything that you need to know.

Try looking here.

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Thank you spectregunner. Perhaps I should have known where to find this information, but I didn't. It will give me something to read to better understand.

My thanks to you also hutcheson and brmehlman for taking the time to respond to my query.