Guest phish Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 My site has been listed in ODP for just about 2 months..Recently I have noticed that my site is no longer listed in the category in which it was listed, although it does still show up under a domain search or relavant keyword search. Can anyone give me any information as to what may have happened? The site was listed here: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Nutrition/Vitamins/ My URL is: http://www.superior-coral.com Any help is greatly appreciated.
Meta tuisp Posted April 7, 2003 Meta Posted April 7, 2003 The site has been found to be an affiliate or reseller. Since we do not list these (see our Guidelines), it has been deleted from the directory.
Guest phish Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 Hi Tuisp, Thanks for the help..just one question. I have no affiliates nor is my site mlm. If it's the point of a reseller then why are there hundreds of ecommerce sites listed? Wouldnt the majority of them be reselling someone else's products? I currently offer a product on my site along with 5 or 6 pages of content on that product which no one else listed anywhere in ODP has. I believe that constitutes unique, and original, and therefore provides the category and the users with unfimiliar content. I dont understand.
dfy Posted April 7, 2003 Posted April 7, 2003 The product that you offer is already represented in Shopping/Health/Nutrition/Dietary_Supplements/Specialty_Products/ and we simply don't need any more sites that sell the exact same coral 'formula' promoted by the same guy.
Guest phish Posted April 8, 2003 Posted April 8, 2003 Exactly...now do a search on "Corazyme" in ODP and you get nothing no one else has it. No one has the product or the content..just because one of the products I carry someone else has so I dont qualify? What about the other? There is another listing in the category you posted that has "the exact same coral 'formula' promoted by the same guy" plus another brand. What if people are looking for information on my other brand? I'm the only one that has it. Alot of people in ODP have the "the exact same coral 'formula' promoted by the same guy", but they also have other products, so why are they there if there's only room for one? I'm not trying to give anyone a hard time. I just put alot of hard work into this and waited a long time to get listed. I thought it was the fact that I had "unique" content and something to offer the category and it's users. This is why I dont understand.
Meta hutcheson Posted April 8, 2003 Meta Posted April 8, 2003 Here's an approach editors typically take in high-affiliate-spam areas: go in and look at the site, to see if it shows signs of (1) being unique, or (2) being non-unique. (After reviewing a few hundred sites in an area, an editor will have "a good feel" for those signs, even if they can't describe that verbally.) If the site looks "non-unique", the editor will probably then pick a product "more or less at random" and try to see if it is already represented. If it is, that's two strikes (one called, and one swing). In this game, that's all you get. It's OUT! -- Umpire's call, and very few instant replays. If you'll think about it a bit, you'll realize that no other approach is practical. Do you really think an editor is going to look at every single product on a site that bears all the earmarks of being an affiliate site -- knowing full well that many affiliate programs offer thousands or tens of thousands of products? It will never happen. In order to allow editors to distinguish between "unique" content and "affiliated/linked" content, it will be necessary to make that distinction _very_ clearly on the website (otherwise they won't know), and make the "unique" content _very_ prominent in the site design (otherwise they won't care). This isn't dictating how you design your website; It's describing how we build ours (a subject, BTW, on which we do not accept dictation.) It may give a little bit more insight into what we consider a site "useful" to surfers. (Note that we have no interest in whether sites "attract" surfers --after all, roach hotels attract roaches -- but that is not exactly the same thing as being useful to them.)
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