Guest brettbruce Posted October 29, 2002 Posted October 29, 2002 We submitted our site http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.com a couple of times within this past year. The category we most recently submitted to is http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Communications/Wireless/Cellular_Phones/Accessories/C/ . We submitted about a week ago again. It had been about 6 - 8 weeks ago but had no response. I am sorry about resubmitting, I was unaware that this forum existed. I am aware that the category has no editor, but it does seem like the most appropriate category. Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks in advance.
dfy Posted October 29, 2002 Posted October 29, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Your site looks suspiciously similar to http://www.wirelessaccessorycenter.com/ if you ask me. Are you sure there is unique content on your site?
Guest Posted October 29, 2002 Posted October 29, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Similar source code, registrants of the domain names have the same address etc. <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" alt="" />
uzs980 Posted October 29, 2002 Posted October 29, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c But neither of them is listed yet.
Guest brettbruce Posted October 29, 2002 Posted October 29, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Yes, we do own both sites. We use wirelessaccessorycenter.com as a staging ground for cellular-phone-accessories-center.com . We do not promote wirelessaccessorycenter.com and will not be submitting it to the directory. If there is something you would like us to do to reflect this please let us know. The only reason we do not link it back to us is that somepages are similar and we do not want to be penalized for duplicated pages. Thanks for your help and such a quick reply.
Guest brettbruce Posted November 6, 2002 Posted November 6, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Yes, we do own both sites. We use wirelessaccessorycenter.com as a staging ground for cellular-phone-accessories-center.com . We do not promote wirelessaccessorycenter.com and will not be submitting it to the directory. If there is something you would like us to do to reflect this please let us know. The only reason we do not link it back to us is that somepages are similar and we do not want to be penalized for duplicated pages. Thanks for your help and such a quick reply.
cjtripnewton Posted November 6, 2002 Posted November 6, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c uzs980 is right. As DMOZ editors it is not our job to prevent all listings just because a webmaster builds multiple sites. Our job is to list one site per business. That said, I have absolutely no comment on the specifics in this thread. I just think it is important to remind everyone that we are not the Internet police. Again, if you as an editor can do a search on Google and find that there are multiple sites that are very similar, it doesn't matter. What matters is when those sites are submitted to DMOZ.
uzs980 Posted November 6, 2002 Posted November 6, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c One submission of your site was deleted from the queue of Shopping/Consumer Electronics/Communications/Wireless/Cellular Phones/Accessories/C two weeks ago, but I do not know why it was deleted and whether there is still another submission in queue - I don't have editing privileges for that category. Could please someone who does have a look?
beebware Posted November 6, 2002 Posted November 6, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.com is NOT in the unreviewed queue for that category.
Guest Posted November 6, 2002 Posted November 6, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Uzs980 and Cjtripnewton are right. A site should not be rejected just because there are mirrors somewhere which are not already listed in ODP. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. Because of all the spam that is submitted we are however suspicious if we find mirror sites, therefore the investigation and request for further information. I don't know why exactly this submission was rejected, it is not in the unreviewed queue any more. BTW, submitting to several different categories is not helpful. <edited>Section of this post removed by me.</edited>
Guest brettbruce Posted November 10, 2002 Posted November 10, 2002 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c I just wanted to thank you all for your help. It is greatly appreciated. I have resubmitted my site to the same category since it was deleted from the que. Hopefully the editor will take another look. Thanks again for all of your replies.
Guest brettbruce Posted March 4, 2003 Posted March 4, 2003 Just so there is no confusion, I posted here before approximately 3 months ago regarding the same site. It has been about a year now and I still cannot get my site accepted into the directory. It is a great site and has a lot of good content. When we initially launched the company we launched it with the URL http://www.wirelessaccessorycenter.com but have since retired that site and it is only up for our customers that purchased from there when we first opened. We do not want to just delete the site because we do not want to worry our customers or lose them all together. The URL in question is the one we use and the one we submitted to Yahoo! PLEASE let me know if this is the problem and what I can do to fix it. I am in a very competitive category and a link in your directory is very important to us. I tried submitting http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.com to a new Category around FEB 1st which I beleive is: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Communications/Wireless/ The old category I submitted to is: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Communications/Wireless/Cellular_Phones/Accessories/C/ I also just tried submitting to my Local category just so you know which is: http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/California/Localities/R/Rancho_Cucamonga/Business_and_Economy/ Thanks in advance for any help you can give us.
motsa Posted March 4, 2003 Posted March 4, 2003 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Your site was deleted from the queue for http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Communications/Wireless/ (it doesn't belong there) -- it is currently awaiting review in the accessories/C category you originally submitted to.
Guest brettbruce Posted March 4, 2003 Posted March 4, 2003 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Thanks so much for your help. You guys are a credit to the ODP.
Guest brettbruce Posted April 4, 2003 Posted April 4, 2003 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Its been about 5 or 6 more weeks and I just wanted to check on the status of my site again. Thx
motsa Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Re: http://www.cellular-phone-accessories-center.c Actually, if you look at the date of your last request, it's been a month exactly. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> You're still waiting in the queue with a handful of others.
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