What! No Site Submission Status Checks

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Stubie_do

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I'm absolutely gob smacked that after this amount of time waiting and waiting, resubmitting and resubmitting that I'm now told you cannot chase your submission. :mad:

Most of the major search engine tell you to go to dmoz to register your site, it’s an "open directory project", how open is this directory when you cannot even see how your submission is progressing. :mad:

You can see why I'm a little :mad: when I've submitted my site on 3 previous occasions :icon_excl The last time being on the 7th of May 2005.

No doubt there are many like me in the same postion just sitting and waiting :rolleyes:

:icon_arro LAST SUBMISSION

May 7, 2005, 11:38 AM
Stubie_do
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Site Submisssion - http://www.rentways.co.uk

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I have submitted this site on two previous occasion since the 31st January 2005. I have recieved no communications since the previous submissions, hence I am resubmitting for the 3rd time

Please let me know the status of http://www.rentways.co.uk submitted March 6 2005 to:

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...roperty/Rental/

Thanks
 
spectregunner

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1. This is not a submission service for webmasters. Wait times for reviews can exceed three years.

2. We do not send notifications except in extraordinary circumstances. When you submitted you received a confirmation screen, that is all the notification you will receive.

3. You have submitted three times. Stop submitting. There is no reason to submit ever again unless your website undergoes a significant change in focus.
 
Alucard

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Stubie_do said:
Most of the major search engine tell you to go to dmoz to register your site, it’s an "open directory project", how open is this directory when you cannot even see how your submission is progressing. :mad:
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I appreciate your frustration.

The "Open" in the Open Directory Project refers to the fact that the directory itself is free to use on other web sites, providing the terms of use are followed. Take a look at http://dmoz.org/about.html where you will see more about what the ODP is and isn't. In particular:
The Open Directory was founded in the spirit of the Open Source movement, and is the only major directory that is 100% free. There is not, nor will there ever be, a cost to submit a site to the directory, and/or to use the directory's data. The Open Directory data is made available for free to anyone who agrees to comply with our free use license.
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Our "Source" is actually the source for the contents of the directory itself, not the code to run it.

Hope this clarifies for you.
 
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more4kids

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The only suggestion I would make is when a site gets reviewed send an email with a thumbs up or down. I am not looking for an explanation, just a curtesy email one way or another when a site has been reviewed.
Without an indicator whether a site has been reviewed its hard for a webmaster to know if he/she should resubmit their site. Over the past year I have added content and focus several times on my site and I don't want to resubmit if my site has not been reviewed yet. I know how busy all the editors, and respect the amount of work they have an are doing as volunteers. I also do not wish to run the risk of getting banned from submitting by resubmitting everytime I add content because I don't know the status of my submission.
 
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Everything that can possibly be said about this topic has already been said lots of times. Closing this thread.
 
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