I am Nick Posted September 21, 2004 Posted September 21, 2004 http://www.plushtoys4you.com As far as can remember it was submitted to http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Toys_and_Games/ This site was first submitted in 2001, and re-submitted in 2002. According to this forum it was just in que and I could do nothing but waiting. However, +3 years is a lot of waiting to do... FYI. My company do work as trading agents in different product categories. Each product category is a different business unit in itself. We have 6 webpages as of today. All are using the same IP. Two of our domains used to be listed but not anymore, http://www.tvvgroup.com and http://www.sportswear4you.com. Are we doing something DMOZ do not like please let me know.
jimnoble Posted September 21, 2004 Posted September 21, 2004 This is the Open Directory Project. Whilst Google is one of our downstream data users, we can't comment on what they do with it. Please provide a clickable link to your chosen category within ODP as requested in ATTENTION - Forum Guidelines - READ BEFORE POSTING and then we'll be able to help you. You seem to have spread your website (in our definition of the term) over multiple domain names. That doesn't automatically make it eligible for multiple listings.
I am Nick Posted September 21, 2004 Author Posted September 21, 2004 Hi, Sorry! Please give me the status of http://www.plushtoys4you.com Wchich was submitted to: http://dmoz.org/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Toys_and_Games/Import_and_Export/ According to instructions on the forums's business category "read before post", if I by misstake started in main, I should continue there and someone should move this thread to appropriate category? I am truly sorry for the inconvinience I have created! Regards, Nick This site was first submitted in 2001, and re-submitted in 2002. According to this forum it was just in que and I could do nothing but waiting. However, +3 years is a lot of waiting to do... FYI. My company do work as trading agents in different product categories. Each product category is a different business unit in itself. We have 6 webpages as of today. All are using the same IP. Two of our domains used to be listed but not anymore, http://www.tvvgroup.com and http://www.sportswear4you.com. Are we doing something DMOZ do not like please let me know.
bobrat Posted September 21, 2004 Posted September 21, 2004 http://tvvgroup.com/ is listed in http://dmoz.org/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Clothing/Import_and_Export/ Business: Consumer Goods and Services: Clothing: Import and Export http://www.plushtoys4you.com and http://sportswear4you.com. will not be listed - since they are in fact the same company. However, you could also submit http://tvvgroup.com/ for review in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Shanghai/Business_and_Economy/Manufacturing/ Regional: Asia: China: Shanghai: Business and Economy: Manufacturing
I am Nick Posted September 22, 2004 Author Posted September 22, 2004 is it our IP you have problem with? Hi, Well we have three different companies in 3 different countries. Do you say that each can not have a webpage? TVV Group is just a name grouping our companies, actually there is no company named TVV Group. Please let me know the real problem for my site not being listed, as I am sure any company can successfully add several domains in case your editors finds it worthwhile to add. Our different webpages are runned by different webmasters for different arget groups. They work with different suppliers and different buyers and do cleary want to differentiate themself. Is the main problem for you that we are using the same IP for all, please advice Regard, Niclas
dogbows Posted September 22, 2004 Posted September 22, 2004 It has nothing to do with the IP. Each company is allowed at best one Topical listing and one Regional listing. I would take bobrat's advice to submit the main domain that groups them all to the Regional category he suggested, and then make sure it links to the others.
I am Nick Posted September 24, 2004 Author Posted September 24, 2004 so I should not web-merge the three companies? So, if I understand you right, we should promote each company individually. There are three different companies in our group, in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Each company, product group is individual for that particular country and product. The content managers are different allready. I am mearly a webdesigner trying to understand... At http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html#notinclude you write: However, individual product sites offering substantial information, tips, advice, and usage information for consumers are generally acceptable. How can I claim that I would fall under this category?
Meta hutcheson Posted September 26, 2004 Meta Posted September 26, 2004 You are doing something DMOZ does not like. You may add links to all your various company sites from your own site. If your company sites are so totally worthless that you do not even link to them from your own site, why should WE link to them? If you do link to your companies from your own site, then ... we do not need to link to them. In either case, we will not link to them.
I am Nick Posted September 27, 2004 Author Posted September 27, 2004 hold your horses mister You are so wrong?! Your directory is really good for a company who want to be visable on Internet. I could even concider to give up linking to them to get them there. The traffic I these pages get are from Internet and marketing campaigns anyway. And, if you had read my e-mail carefully, they are different business units we are trying to mix as little as possible. All in order to keep content valid and focused to highest extent. My friend, if you just tried to put your self on my end, you would see what I mean. Cheers
Meta hutcheson Posted September 27, 2004 Meta Posted September 27, 2004 >I could even concider to give up linking to them to get them there. If the person most interested in the websites doesn't link to them, it's obvious that nobody else should either. So that is not a rational proposal. You may create and promote as many sites as you wish--we won't tell you how to promote your business. But we're satisfied with one link to TVV Group. And we are VERY strict about this, because we have so many aggressive site-splitting submitters -- so it's a non-negotiable policy of this site. (We editors couldn't change it even if we wanted to: but knowing how much trouble it would cause us, we don't want to.) and if you link all your sites from there, everyone will be able to find them from the ODP.
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