What if editor has reviewed a website....

Dear Editors,

I submitted my website http://mobiledad.com to the following category before 2 month and in my website statistics there was a visit by DMOZ editor last week.

Then after 2, 3 days I checked that category and still my website was not listed. I was not informed whether my website is rejected. I just want to know do you inform if website gets rejected and what should I think now after an editor's visit.

However I did some more improvements in my website and resubmitted to same category.

With best regards,

Malik

No, we will (almost) never inform anyone when a website is reviewed.

This entry in your logs doesn't mean the site is reviewed. Many other things could have happened.

>However I did some more improvements in my website and resubmitted to same category.

OK, it's done, and there's nothing to do now. And you admitted it in public, so we can tell you (and everyone else listening): this is NEVER the right thing to do.

Please don't do it again, OK? The chances that could help ANYONE are as near zero as you can conveniently calculate.

Hmm You seem right

I just imagined that editor has reviewed my website because he had visited about 5 pages of my website and this cannot be done accidentally. Obviously I could be on mistake because you all know better what is happening behind DMOZ Wall.

" Please don't do it again, OK? " Obviously I would do it again but only improvements in my website not resubmission. I am very sorry that I resubmitted my website.

Thanks for your support.

With best regards,

Malik

It's a shame the main menu doesn't work in some browsers such as Firefox.

I am in the process of redesigning my website (a health care and medical supplies company site) with helpful and informative health related resources, articles and information. I have no idea if my current site was rejected or even viewed by an editor, so would it be wise to resubmit once the new site goes up with all the new and different content?

ddunleavy:

Yes, you may resubmit once to the single best category. Note in the description [new content] so than an editor will be sure to take a complete look.

cool.. thanks

This isn't an official policy by any means, but think about it as if you were submitting to help the editor, and you'll usually come up with a reasonable answer. In this case, if it has been, say, six months since the last submittal -- then I (as an editor) would be willing to review the site again, particularly if I had some idea that significant unique, authoritative, informational content had been added. If the site has been reviewed more than twice already, however, I'd naturally start thinking in terms of four-letter trademark terms for unidentifiable meat-flavored animal byproducts.

Which is, of course, WHY the submittal policy says what it says about "not submitting a site before it's ready for review." It saves us time, and protects you from a reputation as a spammer. But since the ODP is about people trying to do a good job, and not about bureaucracies trying to avoid responsibility by following procedures -- there are reasonable exceptions. And one possibly-innocent mistake isn't going to tar you for life. It's only when we start seeing a pattern that we warm up the tar and start collecting feathers.

hutchenson, I wasn't sure if that post was directed towards me or the person who started the thread. I probably should have started a different thread rather than post on this one.

ddunleavy:

Knowing Hutcheson as well as I do, I feel safe speculating that the advice was less for you (since you've demonstrated that you've got it) and more for the person casually browing this thread in search of a clue or two.

Regards

ddunleavy, neither to you nor to the original poster but to the question you raised. Yes, it would probably have been better to start a new thread. But the analysis would be the same for anyone:

(1) Ask if you're likely to have a reputation as spammer -- in which case it's better not to do anything.
(2) Ask if the changes you've made are really significant -- unique content and authorial voice matter MUCH more than style or presentation; but navigation is significant if the former navigation was really really bad. If the changes aren't significant from the ODP analysis, then there is no reason to resubmit -- so save your second shot until it might matter.
(3) Ask if it's been a reasonable amount of time to ask for a re-review. Two weeks is insanely unreasonable; two years is obviously reasonable; the boundary is somewhere in between.

If you think about it that way, your decision might be different from mine, but it won't be unreasonably different -- and the whole point of having human beings do this stuff is to take advantage of human capability for reasoning, so we aren't going to complain if you're being humanly helpful. (And we do know when people are being human-selfish, too, no matter what sophistical interpretation of rules or morals they give.)

I understand fully... its not really a site redesign, i am just adding more useful content to make it easier for our customers who have questions about particular products or health related subjects. Thanks for replying to my questions so quickly.