trying to enter a taxi service in the state of Nebraska

under transportation and taxis, they only have 1 state listed. how do I get Nebraska entered as a state to submit taxi services?

any help is appreciated.

The place to suggest a taxi service in Nebraska is to go to Regional/North_America/United_States/Nebraska/Localities/ and then find the town category that the taxi service is based in. Suggest it there or to the Transport sub-category if there is one.

If the taxi service has offices in more than one location, suggest it to the county or to it's Transport sub-category if there is one.

If the taxi service has offices in more than one county, suggest it to Regional/North_America/United_States/Nebraska/Transportation/.

regards

ADDED : Regional/North_America/United_States/Transportation/Taxis/By_State/ is a link farm that would point to Regional/North_America/United_States/Nebraska/Transportation/Taxis/ if that category existed (which it doesn't).

I just went up a level and suggested it.

ie. http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Transportation/Taxis/By_State/Nebraska

We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the help!

What was the point of doing that?

You asked for and received perfectly good advice and then proceeded to ignore it.

What happens next is that some editor will in time move it back down to its locality where it will await a second editor to finish the job. Double the editorial effort and double the wait time. Not smart .

We'll see how it goes.

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of course, I'm only an editor - what do I know?

:icon_idea The stickied thread at the top of this section is entitled "How to get your site listed FOUR times faster!" and my guess is that you didn't read it - perhaps you should.

[of course this episode leads credence to my theory that taxi services don't really know anything about navigation based on how many of them suggest their sites to the wrong locality. Unless, of course, they see no point in suggesting their site to their home town since everyone there knows that, were they to use them, there is no knowing where they would end up.]

jimnoble said:

What was the point of doing that?

You asked for and received perfectly good advice and then proceeded to ignore it.

What happens next is that some editor will in time move it back down to its locality where it will await a second editor to finish the job. Double the editorial effort and double the wait time. Not smart .

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Sorry, I was late for work at day job and a little rushed. I apologize for the misunderstanding.

I didn't suggest the directory be moved...I entered the complete dmoz url, I had to go up a level becuz the directory did not exist...That is a directory that ALREADY exist for the url that goes up to the state, but then the only state listed is Pennsylvania.

This is the EXISTING directory I wanto to be in:
hxxp://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Transportation/Taxis/[pensalvania is the only option next in the tree] <<---is this bad to want them to create Nebraska branch to this?? I mean: hxxp://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Transportation/Taxis/<<--this is for taxis,isn't it???? Please explain, I sorry just a little slow...guess it's my meds...

add: Most taxis in Nebraska picks up and delivers in multiple counties, interstate and intrastate drop offs.

OK If you follow the pennsylvania link you get to Regional/North_America/United_States/Pennsylvania/Transportation/Taxis/

You want the equivalent Nebraska category which does not exist as there are no/not enough taxi sites. So if your site was eligible you would suggest it to Regional/North_America/United_States/Nebraska/Transportation/ (and if you look at http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Transportation/By_State/ you will see it has Nebraska@ ).

BUT where you suggest your site is not the area in which you work but the town in which you have your office or home base. To be eligible for the state category, you would have to have offices in more than one county of the state.

By definition taxi's will travel all over the place and are quite prepared to go anywhere that a customer wants them too as long as they can pay. Here in the UK, they will go to France, Belgium, the Netherlands and even Germany for the day if required - they still only get listed in their home town.

So if you have one office or homebase, the town that it is in is where you suggest your site.

To get your coverage (i.e. how far you are prepared to go for pickups/dropoffs etc) you say that on your website and then can put it in your description (e.g. 'Taxi service covering A,B, C and D counties' ).

regards

If you tell me which town you operate from, I'll post a link to the right category (if I can find the town. )

Eric-the-Bun said:

If you tell me which town you operate from, I'll post a link to the right category (if I can find the town. )

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Thank you very much for adding the link. We operate from Omaha.

Regional/North_America/United_States/Nebraska/Localities/O/Omaha/Transportation/

[It's 1:16am here and I'm off to bed]