website2 Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 Status of www.website2.com Hello, Could someone run a check and see when WebSite Square Internet Solutions http://www.website2.com may get listed in the directory. We submitted it at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/W/ which we believe to be the appropriate category for our full service web design and hosting company on the internet since 1997. Thanx for your fine help.
miromulus Posted October 16, 2004 Posted October 16, 2004 Just fixing you clickable link. Another editor, with editing rights in that category, will give you the answer. http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/W/
website2 Posted October 19, 2004 Author Posted October 19, 2004 Status of www.website2.com Thank you, Miromulus. We also corrected the links in the original post. We'll continue to wait for the answer from the appropriate editor. Thanx, again.
website2 Posted October 20, 2004 Author Posted October 20, 2004 Status of website2.com Hi all, Still waiting for that appropriate editor to take a look at this. Thanx again.
website2 Posted October 22, 2004 Author Posted October 22, 2004 Status of website2.com Hi again, Anyone there yet? Thanx.
website2 Posted October 24, 2004 Author Posted October 24, 2004 Status of website2.com Hi again, Anyone there yet? Thanx.
website2 Posted October 27, 2004 Author Posted October 27, 2004 Status of website2.com Hi again, Any help yet? Thanx
website2 Posted October 30, 2004 Author Posted October 30, 2004 Status of website2.com Hello, Again, could someone run a check and see when WebSite Square Internet Solutions http://www.website2.com may get listed in the directory. We submitted it at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/...Full_Service/W/ which we believe to be the appropriate category for our full service web design and hosting company on the Internet since 1997. Thanx for your fine help.
website2 Posted November 3, 2004 Author Posted November 3, 2004 Submission Status Of Website2.com Bump
miromulus Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 Hello, Again, could someone run a check and see when WebSite Square Internet Solutions http://www.website2.com may get listed in the directory. We submitted it at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/...Full_Service/W/ Thanx for your fine help. When an editor will review it. I'm sorry but this is a volunteer work and is impossible to make predictions. About the status of your site, please be patient and wait until an editor who can see the queue of the above category will read this post.
website2 Posted November 9, 2004 Author Posted November 9, 2004 Submission status of website2.com bump
website2 Posted November 15, 2004 Author Posted November 15, 2004 Submission status of website2.com Patience is a virtue. BUMP
website2 Posted December 20, 2004 Author Posted December 20, 2004 Help Please! Hi, Bumping again. We sure have been waiting a long time to get back into the directory. The funny thing is that we were in early on and then somehow we were taken out. We were there before they started alphabetizing the groups in web design. Were we missed when they alphabetized? We didn't do anything wrong that I know of. We have applied to regional category http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Illinois/Localities/C/Chicago/Business_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/ and general category http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/W/ with no luck. The latter category has been updated recently and we still are not going in. Our Internet Services company has been around for a long time. Telling us that the directory is run by volunteers does not address why this should be such a struggle. Should we apply to a different category. We have submitted customers of ours and they were picked up within a few weeks. Are we being ignored or blocked for some reason? Our website is at http:// http://www.website2.com Help please. Thank you.
Meta hutcheson Posted December 21, 2004 Meta Posted December 21, 2004 First, I see nothing in the logs indicating this URL was ever listed in the ODP, and the logs go back at least to 2002. Was it perhaps under another name? As for being blocked, no, you're not. The site is waiting review there. As for being ignored, ... yes, so far you have been. So far, none of the three hundred or so editors that COULD work in those categories, have yet. But there's no conspiracy -- or at least, they didn't ask me to join it. Second, there's no queue. Sites are reviewed based on an editor's perception of their potential relevance. The alphabar under Internet Developers is too large to be useful; it's therefore likely that the site's potential value is MUCH higher in the Regional locality category. But since there's no global queue and no global priorities (and if there were, there would be no privileged priorities for sites merely because someone had suggested them). Third, the amount of time a site submittal has been waiting is really not relevant to anyone on earth. We happily list sites that have never been submitted. Some sites have been submitted but never actually created. Some sites were created but not submitted for years. All that matters is SITE CREATION date. And for it, all that matters is that it be in the past. After sites are created, they're all in the same state: that is, they are eligible for review.
website2 Posted December 21, 2004 Author Posted December 21, 2004 Hi Hutcheson, Thanx for the response. We were definitely in the ODP early on. We were always WebSite Square. We picked the name first and then went looking for the domain. We also own websitesquare.com but seldom use it. It was never submitted or registered on any search engines or directories that we know of. We have always used website2.com. We registered this domain in September 1997 and then probably started to enter the search engines and directories in 1998. Our best guess is that we went in 1998 or 1999 at the very latest. It was before they split the category into the alphabetized sections. It was NOT in the regional section because we talked about where to go and decided we wanted to be more global than just the Midwest. I clearly remember that we would go to the category and then slide down to the “W’s” to find our listing. We would laugh that nobody would go down from “A” to “W” before they would find us but then there are those that might start first at the bottom and go up. We would laugh and say that we would only have backward customers if we depended on that. I honestly don’t know when we went out of ODP. We never made routine checks but just realized early this year that we were no longer there. We’ve looked all through the directory and we’re just not there. My best guess is that we were lost as the split into lettered pages occurred. I noticed that the general “W” page was updated again tonight and we’re still not there. I’m just really frustrated. Glad though that we aren’t being blocked for some reason. I’m trying to determine if we should just try another category. We’re not only web design and hosting but search engine optimization, remakes etc. If you have any suggestions we’re sure listening. Thanx again.
website2 Posted January 3, 2005 Author Posted January 3, 2005 Submission of website2.com :confuse2: UGH!
website2 Posted May 7, 2005 Author Posted May 7, 2005 Hi, Bumping again. We sure have been waiting a long time to get back into the directory. The funny thing is that we were in early on and then somehow we were taken out. We were there before they started alphabetizing the groups in web design. Were we missed when they alphabetized? We didn't do anything wrong that I know of. We have applied to regional category http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_Amer...ernet/Internet/ and general category http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/...Full_Service/W/ with no luck. The latter category has been updated recently and we still are not going in. Our Internet Services company has been around for a long time. Telling us that the directory is run by volunteers does not address why this should be such a struggle. Should we apply to a different category. We have submitted customers of ours and they were picked up within a few weeks. Are we being ignored or blocked for some reason? Our website is at http://www.website2.com Hutcheson responded in Dec. 2004 that a check back to 2002 showed nothing. We were in the directory long before then and may have even been inadvertently removed before 2002. We were not checking our listing often. We know we have been out at least since 2003 and have been trying to get back in since then. Dmoz is getting a bad reputation on the forums with the length of time it takes to get listed. We are a reputable design company that was established in 1997 and working as a full service web design, hosting, and optimization site since then. Can someone help please.
oneeye Posted May 7, 2005 Posted May 7, 2005 On 21st December hutcheson said the site was awaiting review. That is a status check. Next check is not less than 6 months from that date - I make it not before 21st June. To give you a clue about how long it might take, there are 25,000 odd web designers listed. And a similar number not yet looked at. And goodness knows how many not suggested but which are within our discretion to pick and list anyway. And a handful of editors who review sites in that section of the directory. Your best approach is to check the category regularly to see if it is listed - all we do here is tell you it isn't (which you can see for yourself) and which is next to useless information. We have submitted customers of ours and they were picked up within a few weeks. Depends on the site, the category, and editor activity in that area of the directory. Loads of sites are reviewed within a month of being suggested, one of the reasons we ask people to wait a month before asking in this forum. Telling us that the directory is run by volunteers does not address why this should be such a struggle. We are not in the business of addressing anything of this nature, only explaining we are a volunteer project and the volunteers do what they want when they want without any direction or priorities - that is the nature of the beast, like it or not it won't change because that actually works extremely well for us in terms of our objectives, which rarely coincide with webmasters' objectives, unfortunately for them. We were there before they started alphabetizing the groups in web design. It is possible that in the course of category reorganisations the site history has been lost, if indeed it was ever listed. There is a rare bug that has produced such an effect though it is highly unlikely. If nevertheless that is the case, and it wasn't listed under a different URL, it is impossible to say why it was removed. It may have been dead when it was last looked at for example. Unfortunately unless we can positively prove that (a) you were listed and (b) you were delisted as a result of a bug or editor error rather than because the site became unlistable for some reason, we are unable to prioritise a future review. Perhaps you can find an old copy of our data out there (loads of directories that have taken our data have not updated in many years). We may be able to look a bit further with that sort of evidence. Dmoz is getting a bad reputation on the forums with the length of time it takes to get listed. Since we don't and never have been a listing service for webmasters any reputation we might have on webmaster forums is based on a complete misconception as to what we actually are. One reason sites take so long to review is that many categories are clogged up with unlistable spam submitted quite often by the biggest mouths in those forums of which you speak. Tis water off a duck's back these days and of no interest whatsoever to editors. Where we would be concerned is if we were receiving a large number of complaints from ordinary Internet surfers that they could not find unique quality content via our directory. I've never personally come across one such complaint.
Editall/Catmv arubin Posted May 8, 2005 Editall/Catmv Posted May 8, 2005 May I make a suggestion? If you can recall the exact category where you were listed (although I can't find a time when Full Service was not in an alphabar), you might be able to find your listing in http://www.archive.org . DMOZ seems to be fully indexed, at least as far back as 1999.
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