Guest attach Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 Hi, We have submitted this site in July 24, 2002. We would find out the status. Category submitted: http://dmoz.org/Business/Financial_Services/Insurance/Agents_and_Marketers/Travel/ Thank you very much.
Alucard Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 Sometimes our edit histories get a little mangled, but from what I see, the site was submitted to Business/Insurance/Agents_and_Marketers/Travel/United_States/Multi-State and rejected by the editor there because it contains no location information. (I'm not commenting on your site or anything, just on the status of your submission)
Meta johncotton Posted May 15, 2003 Meta Posted May 15, 2003 The site has very limited unique content and is an affiliate of another site and will not be listed.
Guest attach Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 However, on insurance category, there are a LOT of affiliate sites selling for bigger brokers, how did they get in there in the first place? It's a legitimate business and we serve clients internationally ethically. Does it mean that an agent selling for a broker can never be listed in this directory? What about real estate agents? We are willing to add the address on if that helps. Thank you very much for your input and help.
apeuro Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 However, on insurance category, there are a LOT of affiliate sites selling for bigger brokers, how did they get in there in the first place? If there are such sites, they got in there by mistake. If you would PM a list of these sites to any meta editor here we would greatly appreciate it.
Meta hutcheson Posted May 15, 2003 Meta Posted May 15, 2003 The ODP doesn't review, judge, or list businesses. So, look, that means it's really ALL RIGHT with us that your client is an amoral, sadistically vicious, paranoid con man who wouldn't recognize an ethical option if he ran over it with a steamroller. Really, don't let that concern you at all. So don't try to convince us otherwise, not that there is any way you could. It's OK, it is really and truly NOT A PROBLEM. All that aside, the ODP reviews websites and lists the ones that have sufficient unique content. For commercial websites, the "unique content" bar is pretty low -- a site about a local business has to have more information concerning that business than you could find at, say, the online yellow pages. If people can find out who to call or where to go to get personally ripped off, and bounty hunters and process servers know where to go to meet the proprietor, and marshalls know roughly what kind of property can be siezed -- then, roughly speaking, that site has a good chance of being listed. And, not that it's relevant in _this_ case, but when we do get websites for ethical businesses, we'd look for the same kind of content (It's not OUR concern that in those cases the same information would be used by community leaders rather than FBI agents.) What IS relevant in some cases (again, not necessarily this one) is that a site designed to promote one or another affiliate scam, gets decorated with an almost invisible veneer of local information. Such sites don't get listed -- not because they are scams (as they often are), not because the local information is false (as it sometimes is), but merely because the unique content of the site is hard to find. Just to summarize; don't worry about your client's reputation or character ... just make sure that the WEBPAGE emphasizes AND features ITS UNIQUE content.
Guest attach Posted May 15, 2003 Posted May 15, 2003 Thank you very much for your helpful insight. We will work more on developing unique content for the site. Thanks for your time.
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