Guest jeremyalyea Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 Checking status for http://www.toothfairyteeth.com Submitted to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Toys_and_Games/Novelty/Teeth/
Meta kokopeli Posted May 5, 2003 Meta Posted May 5, 2003 Your submission, dated 10/Jan/2003 10:06:46 MST, is waiting among a minimal number of sites in that queue.
motsa Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 As another product-specific subsite of Frankels Costumes, this site will not be listed. I'd recommend you submit http://www.frankelcostume.com/ to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Clothing/Costumes .
lachenm Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 http://www.frankelscostume.com is already waiting for review in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Clothing/Costumes
Guest jeremyalyea Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 Although Frankel's Costume Co., Inc. owns Tooth Fairy Teeth and Toothfairyteeth.com. Tooth Fairy Teeth is a subsidiary of Frankel's Costume Co., Inc. Further More. None of the Tooth Fairy Products are listed or available through www.frankelcostume.com I am not understanding why you are considering toothfairyteeth.com to be part of www.frankelcostume.com Please explain this to me for my own personal education.
motsa Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 Subsidiary of Frankels with: - Same contact information - Same shopping cart and payment information - Same field of work (i.e. costumes and costume accessories, in spite of the fact that it was submitted under toys) A company can only reasonably expect to get one listing for the business they do in any given field, regardless of whether they choose to split their content over multiple domains and/or subsidiary companies.
Guest jeremyalyea Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 Not that I have much of a choice, but I am finding this hard to swollow when a company such as Billy Bob has 5 listings for sites, in the same category, with a minimal effort to hide their muliple identities. Not to mention gross duplicate content. While we are going to great lengths to separte our content from site to site, errigadless how we decided to set up our backend.
motsa Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 I can't comment on what may already have slipped by in the category because we're just talking about your sites here. I'm sure the others will be taken care of eventually but that doesn't affect the listability of your subsites. The fact that you chose to segregate your content in such a way is your own business but you don't get rewarded for it by getting 7 or 8 listings.
Guest jeremyalyea Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 While these sites may be owned by the same company. I am still not following your logic on why you think they are the same when they are clearly not. It is not like we are trying to get 7 - 8 links to the same site or content. It is not like we have made any attempt to diceive dmoz.org or visitors. I was puzzled at first by the addition of category in webmaster world just for complaints about the bureaucracy of the editors of dmoz. I wonder no more.
steveb Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 You are being told that your costume company could have one listing. The directory doesn't care how you present your costumes: items on individual pages on a website subdomains on one website different URLs for types of costumes That doesn't matter. Your company gets one listing for this field. If you were to sell costumes on one URL and rocket launchers on another URL, then that could be a different thing, but red widgets and blue widgets are just widgets and a widget company gets one topical listing. This should not be hard to uderstand. << edit, and and maybe you could provide a link to this claimed category on webmasterworld. I don't see one.>>
motsa Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 >>I was puzzled at first by the addition of category in webmaster world just for complaints about the bureaucracy of the editors of dmoz. I wonder no more. If you're talking about the "Directories" forum at WebmasterWorld, that isn't what it is there for -- you might want to take a look at the forum's FAQs again. And it's been there for a long, long time.
Meta hutcheson Posted May 6, 2003 Meta Posted May 6, 2003 >While these sites may be owned by the same company. I am still not following your logic on why you think they are the same when they are clearly not. They are not "mirrors"or "doorways" -- that is, "the same." They are what we call "fraternal mirrors" or "vanity domains." We don't care how many domains you spread your website over. We expect you to read the submittal guidelines at http://dmoz.org/add.html and understand that the bit about "Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites" is specifically directed at your practice.
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