junoman Posted August 11, 2004 Posted August 11, 2004 Dear Editor, On 6/25/04 we submitted http://www.123driving.com to the following category; Business: Education and Training: Driving: Traffic Schools Could you please tell me why it hasn't been listed yet? thanks, Ara
Editall/Catmv arubin Posted August 11, 2004 Editall/Catmv Posted August 11, 2004 No. We won't give a status report without a clickable link to the category, and we still wouldn't tell you why the site isn't listed -- we'd just report on the status of the submission.
ameyerson Posted August 24, 2004 Posted August 24, 2004 Hi Arubin Hi Arubin, I'm sure you are swamped with this type of request so I apologize in advance. I'm the webmaster at 123driving.com which was submitted to the following category: Business: Education and Training: Driving: Traffic Schools I'm hoping to get listed in your directory -- is there any other information you need about the site to get it listed? Thank you, Adam Meyerson adam@123driving.com
ameyerson Posted August 25, 2004 Posted August 25, 2004 Anything I can do? Hi, Is there anything I can do to get listed? I thought it was fairly straight forward just a matter of you guys getting the time to reiview it. Thanks for any quidance you can provide. -Adam
Meta hutcheson Posted August 25, 2004 Meta Posted August 25, 2004 The guidelines do say "no site is guaranteed a listing." What it takes is: provide enough unique content. Make the unique content obvious. There is very very seldom anything else involved. The definition of "unique" is pretty simple, with one point that is better understood by the general public than the marketroid dens, and one wrinkle that is vaguely alluded to and strongly emphasized (interesting rhetorical trick, that!) in the submittal guidelines. (1) There is no such thing as unique advertising, promotion, marketing copywriting, etc. All that can be unique is actual information about the product offered. No unique product or service == no unique content. Most of the world understands this, but marketers understandably don't appreciate it, which is fine with us. Another way to say this is: content is information, not persuasion. (2) An entity is assumed to have one website on a "topic", with the definition of "topic" very broad in "Shopping" and narrow in, say, Arts/Literature/Authors. Our assumption is that all of the entity's content is linked together, and we'll post one link to it all. This surprises some web marketers, but it is a very very important point for us. (So even if you presented all unique content on site A, and different unique content on site B, we'd only list one of them.) This is easy enough for people to deal with: one umbrella sites pointing to all the other sites, and all the others linking back to the umbrella. We would consider listing the umbrella. [Caveat: I haven't looked at the site recently if at all, so these are genuine generalities. All or none may be applicable to any particular rejected site.] One final point: there is basically never (well, hardly ever) anything to be done about a rejection. This follows pretty directly from our definition of "unique content." Another way of looking at it is: the site serves your purpose, OK: it doesn't serve ours, so ours doesn't list to it, OK. There's room for more than two purposes on the web, and you're welcome to all of it that's devoted to your purpose.
ameyerson Posted August 25, 2004 Posted August 25, 2004 Thanks for the Clarification BTW, I have no idea who the guy is (that appears to be banned) that was asking about my site - very strange. We have been working very hard to add unique content- we have added step-by-step guides for many of the counties in florida that our users find very useful. Here are some links -- all unique written by our editors. How it works How to Do it Sample County Guide - Broward So far we have about 20 of the county guides that make it easy for a student to answer all the questions they need. Try getting a county clerk on the phone for this info and your license will be suspended before you get a human on the phone. It takes about an hour of research to create one guide. You can find them here: County Guides List This will be my last message -- don't want to monopolize your time. Thanks.
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