coolcases Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 Please let me know the status of http://www.modern-furniture.com submitted to http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/New_York/Localities/N/New_York_City/Brooklyn/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Furniture/ Thank you.
coolcases Posted December 23, 2004 Author Posted December 23, 2004 I don't know exactly. I submitted it a few months ago.
jimnoble Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 I do .The ATTENTION - Forum Guidelines - READ BEFORE POSTING thread requires that you wait at least a month from your most recent submission before asking here. In your case, that isn't until after 11th January 2005
coolcases Posted December 23, 2004 Author Posted December 23, 2004 Thank you, Jimnoble. I appreciate your help very much.
oneeye Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 Where do you get your clients from coolcases? They seem very fond of multiple URLs for the same basic products. A locality in Regional is not the place for online shopping sites. When you come back to this thread to ask for a status update you are asking about http://www.akostores.com
coolcases Posted December 24, 2004 Author Posted December 24, 2004 That is an interesting topic, oneeye. Many clients "like" to buy multiple domain names and point them to the same site. Unless ranking fluctuations coincide with a search engine switching domain names in its index, I don't bring up the issue. You know the old phrase, "the customer is always right." I was aware of http://www.akostores.com, but I never submitted it to dmoz.org. I just submitted http://www.modern-furniture.com. Was http://www.akostores.com submitted to dmoz.org? If not, what's wrong with submitting http://www.modern-furniture.com, instead of http://www.akostores.com? In my humble opinion http://www.modern-furniture.com is better name. Why do you prefer http://www.akostores.com? In any case, a listing for http://www.akostores.com is better than no listing at all. Thank you for replying and I really appreciate your help.
oneeye Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 modern-furniture is an online (only) shopping site - generally these are not listed in Regional localities. Regional is normally for "bricks and mortar" store sites. The akostores site is the one that fits that definition. No, it wasn't submitted (that I know of), I substituted it. The probability otherwise is that modern-furniture would have been rejected or moved to a different part of the directory where it could take years even to be reviewed. Added: it pays to read and understand (a) the category descriptions, FAQs, and submission notices attached to each of the DMOZ branches, (b) ditto for specific categories within those branches you are submitting to. When it comes to deciding which site(s) to submit and where, the customer is not always right, nor should marketing considerations like which has the best name or what category is most commercially beneficial, enter your head. Don't submit sites that don't fit, don't submit any of the types of site we don't list, like MLM, mirrors, etc, etc, make sure the site fits, follow the guidelines on title and description (no hype, no marketing speak, etc. etc.) and stick to an objective description of the site. It is your reputation as a submitter on the line and I for one will usually give regular poor submitters the lowest priority when reviewing sites - I can deal with five submissions from those who have followed the rules precisely quicker than one I have a good idea is going to be a waste of, or involve excessive, time.
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