www.rg1.co.uk

Hi I submitted the following url to this category

Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Industries: Telecommunications: Mobile: Services: Ring Tones, Graphics and Logos

The url is www.rg1.co.uk.

Could someone please please update me to the status of this.

Many thanks

Your site offers no unique content. It simply is an affiliate front for Stealth Net Interactive. As such it will not be listed.

The spooks seem to have got at the coding - all the links take me to variations of

http://66.34.175.208/funfone/ringtone.php?country=uk

You probably need to check them to make sure that they have not been tampered with

Re: No Unique Content

Yes it does, it has User Forums, pages on Bluetooth, Wap, MMS, Free SMS Texting, Games, News, Gadget of the week and more under the Funfone Zone and text links. The stealthnet site is purely an addition, so how can you say no unique content.

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The stealthnet site is purely an addition, so how can you say no unique content.

Somehow it looks the other way around.

Re: No Unique Content

funfone - FYI - apeuro doenst know what unique content is.

Re: No Unique Content

I think you'll find he does. Apeuro is one of the meta editors - a team of senior volunteer editors selected by Netscape staff to guide the project and accept new editors. Metas also do the bulk of the work involved in finding and solving abuse.

If apeuro was no good at finding unique content, he'd never have reached meta status. Please don't launch personal attacks on people who don't agree with your opinions.

Re: No Unique Content

Regardless of which way round it is there is still lots of unique content. At the end of the day if you only allowed 100% unique then there would be about 200 web sites in total as all sites are similar in there subject matter. So if the current sites in the category all have the same ringtones then why not exclude all of those two. This seems to be singled out victimisation on a site which I have spent a lot of time building, I haven't just set up a doorway page into someone elses site. I have spent weeks setting up all the content and pages and sincerely believe that it offers users a differing experience to some of the other sites under this category, some of which have about 2 pages in all....hardly high quality.

I know you chaps have a tough job but I just fail to see how I can be included under this same 'no unique content banner'. I have a hard enough time trying to make a living in this market and do feel hard done by, and sincerely would appreciate any second thoughts. Or at least what needs to be done to make this acceptable.

Thanks
Funfone

Re: No Unique Content

>>Regardless of which way round it is there is still lots of unique content.

ABSOLUTELY NONE of which is related to the category you submitted to.

>>At the end of the day if you only allowed 100% unique then there would be about 200 web sites in total as all sites are similar in there subject matter.

You may be right. Come to think of it, that may be why NewHoo didn't really catch on until they dropped the "100% unique" rule.

>>This seems to be singled out victimisation
... LOL. You suppose, do you, that you're the only ringtone affiliate site ever rejected? Did you every wonder why? Could it have anything to do with the black helicopters that follow you around?

Look, I'll take your word for the helicopters. But you don't have to believe me. You can test it for yourself. Find a couple or three other ringtones affiliates sites, and submit them. See if they get listed. If they DO, you MIGHT have been singled out. If not, you CERTAINLY WEREN'T singled out.

But until you've performed this simple experiment, my recommendation is not to make rash accusations.

>>on a site which I have spent a lot of time building,

Oh, that's the problem, you forgot to fill in the field on the ODP submission form "How long did it take to create this site?" [added: that field was omitted from the form, because that information was irrelevant]

... some of the other sites under this category, some of which have about 2 pages in all....hardly high quality.

Um, the issue is not quality. The issue is not number of pages. The issue is unique relevant content. We actually LIKE two-page sites.

>>I have a hard enough time trying to make a living in this market...

Completely irrelevant.

If you want to sell your own ringtones, we'd LOVE to list your site. You don't need hundreds of pages of gratuitious graphics or irrelevant fluff. You don't need professionally-worded hype. A single page of HTML will be sufficient. It doesn't have to be tastefully designed. It doesn't have to be grammatically correct.

You just have to sell ringtones.

But, you see, your site in fact does not sell ringtones; it merely advertises the fact that some other site sells ringtones. And the ODP already signifies that fact, by simply listing the other site.

Re: No Unique Content

>I know you chaps have a tough job but I just fail to see how
>I can be included under this same 'no unique content
>banner'. I have a hard enough time trying to make a living
>in this market and do feel hard done by,

Even if I am annoying you with statements you may have read several times in other threads in this fora:

1) ODP does not guaranty to list any sites.
2) ODP is not made for webmasters but for users. They are who our rules are made for.
3) Please dont blame us if you dont get your business in order. /images/icons/smile.gif
3) You dont think that accusing editors in a forum will bring any other editor to rethink about your site, do you?

Anyway I looked at the site myself to see if I can find anything.

1) All but 2 links from the starting page go direct to http://66.34.175.208/funfone/ which is an affiliate of http://www.stealthnetinteractive.com/ as stated above.

2) One of the others offers stealthnets SMS-service.

3) In the funonezone I cant spot anything but links to external sites. No content.

So I have to agree with apeuro. No Content.

Re: No Unique Content

OK if I set up another site with 1 page of about 5 new ringtones from my site and 1 link through to my current site you'll list it then, if not then all you've just said is a lie.

And as far as no content open your eyes or put your glasses back on because you'd be really blind to miss all the other pages, and stealthnet don't do sms so wrong again.

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Oh and hutcheson how can this not be relevant to the category I submitted to when the category is ringtones and logos....seems like you need to sort your categorisation out mate.

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And it doesn't merely advertise the other site they host the sms servers etc.., I pay for all the servers and phone lines...using your rule anyone who has hosted space is advertising the big isp's unless they host thgeir web site on there pc at home [no flames please: apeuro].

Re: No Unique Content

As a matter of passing interest, why do you bother to disable right click on mouse to "stop" browsers looking at your coding

Don't know if you are aware, but it is quite easy to examine the coding anyway, and in fact probably makes it more likely for people to look at it in detail to see what you are trying to hide ??

Re: No Unique Content

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr><p>OK if I set up another site with 1 page of about 5 new ringtones from my site and 1 link through to my current site you'll list it then, if not then all you've just said is a lie.<p><hr></blockquote>I don't know if 5 original ringtones is enough content to get listed. However, adding a link to a site consisting of affiliate links won't affect it getting listed or not.<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr><p>Yes it does [have unique content], it has User Forums, pages on Bluetooth, Wap, MMS, Free SMS Texting, Games, News, Gadget...<p><hr></blockquote>Yes, and none of that has anything to do with "Ring Tones, Graphics and Logos". The parts of your site that do have to do with that are links to Stealth NET.

Also, the affiliate links are big and prominent at the top of the entry page, making one think that they are what the site is about, while the unique content are in smaller, no-graphics links at the bottom of the page; since the whole purpose of the site seems to be the affiliate links, it's not going to get listed. If the unique content was prominently listed at the top of the page, while the affiliate links were listed less conspicuously at the bottom, then your site might be included in the ODP... under a different category.<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr><p>I pay for all the servers and phone lines...using your rule anyone who has hosted space is advertising the big isp's unless they host thgeir web site on there pc at home<p><hr></blockquote>???? I don't see anyone suggesting anything like this.