planetnumbers Posted August 12, 2004 Posted August 12, 2004 Please can I check the site submission status for http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk It was posted to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Telecommunications/Phone_Services/Non_Geographic_Numbers/ more than 2 months ago. I look forward to hearing back from you. Kindest regards Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
jimnoble Posted August 12, 2004 Posted August 12, 2004 June 22nd actually. Your suggestion has been received and is awaiting review. We can't predict when that might be. If it hasn't been listed in 6 months, please ask again.
leer Posted August 12, 2004 Posted August 12, 2004 Crikey... I have seen some sites that have been submitted to many categories... and then there is this one! There really is no need to resubmit as the site has been reviewed many times over the past few years and it has been decided everytime that the site is not listable. Normally we would not give an indication of why a site has been declined a listing however in this instance I am happy to provide a clue: Other site, same company, same services, already listed = nothing unique and contra guidelines
planetnumbers Posted September 7, 2004 Author Posted September 7, 2004 www.planet-numbers.co.uk Hi Jim Thanks for your speedy reply. I understand there may be a way for me to check the status of my submission myself - can you please let me know if this is possible, and if so how to go about it. Thanks for this Kind regards Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk
jimnoble Posted September 7, 2004 Posted September 7, 2004 I understand there may be a way for me to check the status of my submission myselfThat's incorrect.
planetnumbers Posted November 10, 2004 Author Posted November 10, 2004 Waited 5 months Hi Jim It's nearly 5 months since I submitted http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk for review by an editor, and I wondered if you could find out if the website has been blacklisted or something as I just searched: http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=www.planet-numbers.co.uk And there are no results for this URL - am I searching in the correct way? Look forward to hearing back from you, Kind regards Robin James
Meta hutcheson Posted November 10, 2004 Meta Posted November 10, 2004 Hi Jim It's nearly 5 months since I submitted http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk for review by an editor ... Jim said: If it hasn't been listed in 6 months, please ask again. Feel free to check back in, lessee, if "six" means "two" then, um, yes, EIGHT months.
planetnumbers Posted November 11, 2004 Author Posted November 11, 2004 I'm just saying, 5 months seems a long time - I know there isn't an editor for the category that I would like a listing in; 6 months is an age! is there no way to speed things up? Kind regards Robin James
planetnumbers Posted December 27, 2004 Author Posted December 27, 2004 6 months and no review for www.planet-numbers.co.uk Please can I check the site submission status for http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk It was posted to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...raphic_Numbers/ on June 22nd 2004 (now over 6 months ago) I look forward to hearing back from you. Merry Christmas Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
bobrat Posted December 27, 2004 Posted December 27, 2004 On 08-12-2004, 11:41 AM Jim said If it hasn't been listed in 6 months, please ask again. Why did he say that? Because Jim wants to spend the time editing as many sites as possible and does not want to get fired by the owners of this forum - who have told him to follow the forum guidelines http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=396 without deviating in any of the points there.
planetnumbers Posted December 28, 2004 Author Posted December 28, 2004 Ask Again Ah! Sorry - I thought he meant ask here - I will re-submit as instructed :o
planetnumbers Posted December 28, 2004 Author Posted December 28, 2004 Please can I check the site submission status for http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk It was posted to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...raphic_Numbers/ on 22nd June 2004 I look forward to hearing back from you. Best wishes Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
leer Posted December 28, 2004 Posted December 28, 2004 Your last status check was made and answered on the 12th August 2004. The forum guidelines state:Wait at least six months after getting a status update from an editor about your submission before asking for the next status update. Please do not ask again until after 12th February 2005. Are our guidelines really causing that much confusion?
planetnumbers Posted December 29, 2004 Author Posted December 29, 2004 Status checking & Being reviewed. Hi, Thanks for your quick reply. This has got to be the most frustrating thing I've ever tried to do. I can't understand why I having to wait so long for http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk getting a review from an editor. Can I offer to edit the category I want to be listed within? I note that currently a volunteer is needed to edit http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...raphic_Numbers/ Once again, I look forward to hearing back from anyone who can help / knows what I'm doing wrong here. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2005! Best wishes Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
oneeye Posted December 29, 2004 Posted December 29, 2004 Can I offer to edit the category I want to be listed within? You can volunteer. Although I'm not a meta editor, if the intention is to add that site I would rate your chances of success somewhere between no hope and Bob Hope (already dead). But I'll put you out of your misery, the site has been rejected. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count from how many categories and how many times, but there is no point in keep submitting it, you are just wasting everyone's time. If you're still interested in being an editor I would try for a nice non-commercial category for knitting patterns if I were you. This has got to be the most frustrating thing I've ever tried to do. Now you know how we feel when we see another copy of your site. Thanks for the enquiry anyway.
planetnumbers Posted December 30, 2004 Author Posted December 30, 2004 Been Rejected? Thanks for letting me know that http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk has been rejected - is this a permanant position? I have stopped submitting the URL as I realised that this wasn't the way to get a listing. The site is a stand alone site, with only http://www.planet-numbers.com pointing at it as well. It has unique content, looks good, is informative, and last time was submitted to the correct part of the DMOZ directory. please let me know if there is anything I can do to have my site listed. I look forward to hearing back from you. kind regards Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
leer Posted December 30, 2004 Posted December 30, 2004 There is nothing that can be done and I would suggest other methods of promotion.
planetnumbers Posted December 30, 2004 Author Posted December 30, 2004 Can I make a new site, with a new URL, and submit it to DMOZ for review? Would this be a waste of my / your time? Is it me that is blacklisted, or just the http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk URL? Look forward to hearing back from you. Best wishes Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
sole Posted December 30, 2004 Posted December 30, 2004 The site is a stand alone site, with only http://www.planet-numbers.com pointing at it as well. It has unique content, looks good, is informative... The elements you listed are all important. However, we look for a little more. We don't just look for stand alone sites and unique content, we look for sites that add value to our directory and expand selection. Let me explain. Lots of companies create dozens and dozens of sites to attract more traffic. That's fine. That's their right. They can create separate websites for each brand they sell, each product, and each target audience if they like. They can create: phones_for_teens.com phones_for_tots.com phones_for_seniors.com phones_for_women.com phones_for_men.com cable_service.com cable_tv.com cable_WEB.com etc, etc, etc. Each site may have unique content. We still will list only one and we don't care if they link to each other or not. We think that if the company is wise they create a master site, name_of_company.com, and link all their sites there. If they don't, that's their problem. We are not going to fill our categories with dozens of links to the same company. You can create as many websites as you like for your company. We will list only one.
oneeye Posted December 30, 2004 Posted December 30, 2004 Before anyone points out that we do list multiple sites belonging to the same company, I would add that the guidelines are concerned with related sites with similar content. So phones-4him and phones-4her and related anything-to-do-with-telephony sites would all be covered by that. If a business has diverse areas of operation, telephony on the one hand, china teapots on the other, then we'd look at both sites, no guarantees on either though. If they also put up the definitive informatational site on the history of the telephone we'd look at that too.
planetnumbers Posted January 14, 2005 Author Posted January 14, 2005 Only list one site? Hi You say: "You can create as many websites as you like for your company. We will list only one." I only have planet-numbers.co.uk that I am trying to add to the DMOZ directory. Do you think I am running other companies and this is a 'cloak' of another company? All my products are unique - TargetMaster isn't offered by anyone else in the UK as far as I'm aware. As ever I look forward to hearing back from you. Thanks for your time on this. Kind regards Robin James Planet Numbers Ltd
leer Posted January 14, 2005 Posted January 14, 2005 TargetMaster isn't offered by anyone else in the UK as far as I'm aware. I have found another site very easily (that is listed) that does offer TargertMaster. I am sure that you would not have any problem finding it and you would not even need to look in the directory. The site is not unique and unless others like sites vanish it will remain so. Again I suggest other means of promotion as the ODP is not the answer.
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