What a joke

Inconsistancy Rules.

You can understand why the open directory project zone is getting so much bad press at the moment.

www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Lodging/Vacation_Rentals/

I remember when I started in this business that this listing was the holy grail of vacation rental companies - the companies listed in this category were always mentioned highly within the industry.

I submitted my website back in October 2003 at that stage it was a little over a year old and had started to get quite a few holiday listings, in May/June I was told that my website would not get listed because it was classed as a directory and did not have enough content, i.e. did not feature enough properties.

Okay, I don't have 11,000 properties like the guys at VRBO.com so I went away and didn't think about it anymore. Now today I had a few minutes spare so went to check the category and I find websites that have ONE property in a country as big as the USA, websites that feature four or five countries with a small number of properties.

How the hell can these be classed as good quality content - what are visitors really going to get out of looking at these websites with ONE property listed in a country as big as the US?

Can someone please tell me why the big websites, with over 10,000 properties are not listed in this directory, actually can you tell me why my website is not listed in this category?

You have to be consistant - you cannot make one rule up for one website and another rule for another website. Or what is the point of having submission rules and guidance?

I'm looking forward to receiving a response in English without editor talk or and I am looking forward to the excuses to this one.

EDIT: http://www.dmoz.com/Recreation/Travel/Guides_and_Directories/
holidaybank.co.uk this was moved from the vacation rentals category, why? It's not a directory, or is it? Should all of the vacation rental websites be in this category? Should mine? Hmmm

pudsey said:

Can someone please tell me why the big websites, with over 10,000 properties are not listed in this directory, actually can you tell me why my website is not listed in this category?

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There are no sites listed in that category at all. All those @links point to continents, and further to countries, states and cities.

pudsey said:

You have to be consistant - you cannot make one rule up for one website and another rule for another website.

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We have that one rule it is called "unique content".

pvgool said:

There are no sites listed in that category at all. All those @links point to continents, and further to countries, states and cities.

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That is the kind of response I have come to expect from editors, I should know better.

http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Lodging/Vacation_Rentals/Directories/

Please refer to this link.

pvgool said:

We have that one rule it is called "unique content"..

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Okay, your telling me that there's properties on the websites in that category that are on my website - has an editor been through all of the websites and all of the properties on my website?

How do you know that I don't have unique content on my website, i.e. unique properties and feature different countries to the ones listed? Or are you just assuming?

I'm very impressed if an editor has taken that amount of time submitting all of the websites in that category, no wonder it takes so long to submit websites, it's all becoming clear now.

The only URL you mention is in http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/Guides_and_Directories/ which would seem to be an appropriate category, since it is broader in subject than the category you mention; and there are links between the categories.

You could have found that out yourself easily enough, with ODP search.

Oh sorry you couldn't look at my previous threads.

The website is www.holiday-rentals.uk.com which IS listed within a regional category(where my offices are based), but my comments are related to the inconsistancy of the editing within the ODP.

Is there a submittal of a specific URL you'd like us to check on, or any specific URL that you think should be re-reviewed to see if it meets our current standards?

Oh, no doubt there are inconsistencies. Is there some specific inconsistency that you'd like to bring to our attention -- such as two URLs that are treated significantly differently?

Hutcheson, I know by now that I should go to the appropriate forum within RZ to check on a submittal but since it was rejected for this category I have brought these questions to the forum.

I realise you don't want duplicated content - but you ARE going to get that with the vacation rental industry. The majority of owners market there homes on 2-5 different websites, take this as an example:

holiday-rentals.com/index.cfm/property/5765
(please note this is NOT my website, or any of the other holiday-rental domains with the exception of the domain above)

villarama.com/2357.html

It's the same property amongst two websites in the same category - and there's going to be hundreds of duplicate properties there. I think someone needs to rethink this category - I'm not an editor so I cannot comment on how that should be done.

I would like my website to be listed in the correct category but I do not know how to do this or even if that is possible.

EDIT: I have rightly or wrong re-submitted my website to the category above - please feel free to delete this submission if this is not going to be possible as I do not want to take up editors time and have no intention of spamming.

So is someone going to answer my questions in the threads above - each one has questions which are yet unanswered.

I await your response.

If you want to report sites listed that shouldn't be, do it in the right forum or via the abuse reporting form. If you want the status on your own site, ask about it in the right forum.

I don't see any question in that post that is (1) allowed in the forum, (2) expressed in sufficient detail to be answered at all, and (3) remains unanswered.