www.sintecinc.com

I submitted the above site to the following category:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Industries/Healthcare/Products_and_Services/Dentistry/Products/

I've submitted twice now, and its been around two months since my initial submission. I did notice that it takes a while traveling up that hierarchy to find a category with an editor, which probably explains the delay.

I'm just hoping to get a heads-up on the status, and to see if there are any problems with the submission.

Thanks!

-dave
 

Thanks for the quick response. I'm happy as long as its in the queue.

I had no idea I was pasting a google link - I though it was dmoz.org. Fingers faster than brain (as usual) /images/icons/smile.gif
 

It has been nearly two months since my last post, and the site has still not been listed. Would it be possible to get another status update?

Thanks!

-dw
 

The good news is that the queue is not growing rapidly.
Click to expand...

Realistically speaking, is this site going to be listed within the next six months? If not, I'll try to find another category.
 

Realistically, nobody can predict the future. I'll guess that it will be _reviewed_ in the next 6 months, but I don't guarantee a listing, and ODP doesn't either: http://dmoz.org/add.html

Submitting to other categories won't make the site more listable.
 

Please accept my apologies. I didn't mean that last post to have the tone that it did.

I've submitted sites to the ODP before, but this site has taken by far the longest to be reviewed. I'm familiar with the guidelines and understand that sites are not guaranteed to be listed (otherwise the ODP would lose value very quickly).

However, it seems to me that if I found another appropriate category that had a smaller backlog, or more editors, then the site might be reviewed in less time. You can't get listed without being reviewed <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Of course, there may not be another appropriate category. In which case I'll just sit tight <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for your help,

-dw
 
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&gt;However, it seems to me that if I found another appropriate category that had a smaller backlog, or more editors, then the site might be reviewed in less time.

Yes. But what then?

If the category was "sorta appropriate" but "not the most appropriate", then the editor will probably move it to the most appropriate category....where it will wait for an editor who has permissions there.
What often happens is that the submitter will find another category that "seems appropriate" but is (according to ODP category guidelines) not appropriate at all -- not even in the right main category (Shopping instead of Arts or Recreation, Business instead of Shopping, etc.) In such a case the site may go to the Great Waste Dump in the Ether (also called Test/Misplaced).

Now, on the one hand Test/Misplaced is evidence of the care ODP editors go through NOT to lose sites that might be worth listing. On the other hand, it is not the best place for a submission to be.

Dedicated editors do go through it, ferreting out sites that they might be able to place (or sites that they could move closer to the right place) and moving them back out to the main, well, the main Unreviewed queues. From there the site slowly percolates back down to the "right category", there to take there place in the Unreviewed queue, beside the original submittal.

By my estimate, the size of the backlog of submitted sites is very close to the amount of time wasted by such unconsidered and inconsiderate approaches to getting a site to the head of the backlog.

Just don't do it, please.
 
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