Re-listing After Violation of Guidelines

[kzak]

If a URL is removed from DMOZ because of a violation of the guidelines, is it possible to ever be re-listed?

[spectregunner]

It would depend, to a large extent, upon the nature of the violation.

 

If it were simply a violation of the listing guidelines, and the violation were corrected, then a re-listing is entirely possible (but nothing is guaranteed).

 

If the violation falls in the category of one having done something pro-actively malicious to the directory or its editors, then I would hope and pray that one never, ever sees a listing.

[kzak]

So would the next course of action be to re-submit the URL?

 

I assume the URL was removed because I had multiple websites in the same category with similar content.

[pvgool]

We prefer to list only one (1) website from the same owner when these websites are about the same or related subjects.

[editpk]

You are saying "I had multiple websites in the same category with similar content" then other one is still listed?

[jimnoble]

Extract from our Submission Guidelines:

To keep the ODP running smoothly and to assist us in exercising our editorial discretion, we have set up policies for submitting sites for our consideration. We may reject, delete, or edit submissions that violate these policies or that we otherwise believe, in our sole discretion, should not be included in the directory. We may also reject, delete, or block other sites that we believe to be associated with a user who has violated these policies.

 

Another one:

Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

[kzak]

When I learned of a competitor going out of business, I purchased their two domains (which were in the directory) and put my products on their old websites. Now those two sites as well as my original are gone. This is why I suspect the sites were removed.

 

I would like my original site to be re-listed if possible and not the other two. So should I re-submit the site? I don't know if my site would be "blacklisted" or something like that.

[jimnoble]

We don't what your website is and, in any event, we don't provide website specific advice here anyway - just generalities.

 

If you believe your URLs were removed because of your abuse of our directory, there's not a lot of point in re-suggesting any of them now.

 

Just think, you could have asked us to remove the fraternal mirrors when you created them and we'd likely have thanked you for it - but you didn't.

[kzak]

I'm getting mixed signals here. One response says it is entirely possible to be re-listed after a violation and another says there is no point re-suggesting.

[jimnoble]

As I said above,

We don't what your website is

and we don't want to know here either.

 

I imagine that you'll have ignored my comments and re-suggested it anyway. Only time will tell which of us was correct .

[kzak]

Call me an optimist, but I like spectregunner's response better I would hate to deprive the DMOZ world of my awesome site.