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whamo1 · June 15, 2006

mirrored site on DMOZ

Hello,

There is a site listed under http://dmoz.org/Home/Personal_Finance/Retirement/Annuities/

annuityfyi is mirrored content of annuitycity.com annuitiesfyi.com, annuityplanet.com annuityhelper.com annuitymaven.com. It is my understanding that mirrored content is not allowed under DMOZ rules and the unique content rules. Although it is unknown to me whether or not they submitted any of these other sites to the DMOZ, I do believe it hurts those webmasters that try to put quality out on one site and do not mirror it to gain rank. Plain and simple it is a deceptive practice.

lmocr · June 15, 2006

As long as only one of the mirrored sites is listed, then the listing is fine. If more than one is listed, then all but one would be delisted.

jeanmanco · June 15, 2006

#2549 dealt with, thanks. (Except that I'm still working on Istanbul hotel descriptions.)

The Grand Blue Sky International - works for me.

Kusadasi Hotels - works for me.

nzmember · June 15, 2006

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Guides_and_Directories/

on http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Guides_and_Directories/

http://www.muzi.net is a dead link.

However, the same site seems to be available on http://www.muzi.com

whamo1 · June 15, 2006

As long as only one of the mirrored sites is listed, then the listing is fine. If more than one is listed, then all but one would be delisted.

I hate to nit pick, but I will. In your submission guidlines it says:

Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs.

So how does listing a mirrored site on DMOZ enhance the surfers experience?

What you are basically saying is you will list sites that practice spam and dirty SEO tricks. That is crazy and you need to have a firm policy. Either say, yes, mirrored sites can be included in the DMOZ as long as you try to list only one or, no, mirrored content (which is what your guidelines currently say). Sorry, but your reply seems to not make sense according to the submission guidlines. I am not trying to start or pick a fight, but I feel that honest webmasters need to be rewarded while dishonest web masters should not be rewarded.

This is the last post I will make about this here as it is relevant, but will take up too much room on this thread.

lmocr · June 15, 2006

The guidelines say do not suggest mirror sites, but it doesn't say do not suggest mirrored sites. This is an important distinction.

Let's take this site that you have an issue with - not all of the sites you listed can be mirrors, otherwise they would all be blank pages. One of them has to be an original site. Sometimes it's hard to determine exactly which one is the original, so one of the mirrors might be listed instead of the original. But just because a site is mirrored doesn't mean the original site being mirrored can't be listed.

srikondoji · June 15, 2006

few more broken link

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Arts_and_Entertainment/Movies/Hindi/Bollywood/

1) BollyDreamz : redirected to different page and has no content on listed page.

2) Bollywood Actresses Photos : This website has few Photos and is mostly a duplicate content (Photos) from other websites.

3) Bollywood Channel : Page not found error

4) Bollywood Fanorama : Broken links on this page with content back from year 2000.

5) Bollywood Hot Ranks: Page not found.

6) Bollywood Mania: No Content at all.

7) Bollywood Wallpapers : Complete an Ad site and asking users to search for WallPapers.

8) Bollywoods Pyar: Broken links on page and has no real content.

9) Go Bollywood: Website unavailable.

10) Harsh's Bollywood : Webpage with 3 gif images and no links at all.

11) Indbazaar Movies : Page not at all opening.

12) The Midnight Masala : This website is completely broken

13) The Newsmaker.net : This website is changed and is no more.

14) Sanam's Bollywood Bonanza : A very bad design with links to other bollywood websites.

Thanks

sri

phantomize · June 15, 2006

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Adana/Travel_and_Tourism/

Hotel Seyhan - "adresses"

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Bursa/Travel_and_Tourism/

Celik Palas Hotel - redirects to the Green View Resort in Chiang Mai, Thailand!

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Nevsehir/Travel_and_Tourism/

Nevsehir - page not found.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Izmir/Travel_and_Tourism/

Centur Izmir - server not found.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/Politics/

Politics in Turkey: The struggle for human rights, justice and democracy - title/desc problem.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/Organizations/

The Institute of Turkish Studies - somewhat longish desc

Turkish Foundation for Combatting Erosion (TEMA) -listed twice under Regional/ME/Turkey/

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/Labor/

2nd entry, a massively long title.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/Religion/Christianity/

Chirst Church, Istanbul - OK, even the site's title is misspelled, but shouldn't it still be done right here?

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/Religion/Islam/

Bediuzzaman, Said Nursi - under construction.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/

TR Gay International - has moved to http://www.trgi.info/

jeanmanco · June 16, 2006

#2557 dealt with, thanks. I agree with most of your comments, but:

Harsh's Bollywood : seems to have more content than you thought.

Indbazaar Movies : Working fine for me.

srikondoji · June 16, 2006

#2557 dealt with, thanks. I agree with most of your comments, but:

Harsh's Bollywood : seems to have more content than you thought.

Indbazaar Movies : Working fine for me.

Ooops. Indbazaar Movies is working fine for me today.

Harsh's Bollywood seems to have content but on my computer i see nothing. Looks like i donot have active X controls/Flash Player enabled in my browser settings.

thanks

sri

jeanmanco · June 16, 2006

#2558 dealt with, thanks. Plus a few other changes made. Churches should be listed under their locations, if we have categories for them.

phantomize · June 17, 2006

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Bilecik/

Federal Marble - listed twice under Regional: Middle East: Turkey:

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Kayseri/

Tedarix - listed twice within Turkey.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Konya/

Cesmelisebil - seems to go to an ISP?

Konya - every word is capped.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Konya/Business_and_Economy/

Korkmaz Automotive - listed twice in Turkey cat's.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Nevsehir/

Cappadocia Houses - forbidden.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Samsun/

First two entries can't be found.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Tekirdag/

Tekirdag Faculty of Agriculture - couldn't load page.

jeanmanco · June 18, 2006

#2562 dealt with, thanks.

CaroloftheWoods · June 19, 2006

Pet Sitters and Walkers

In this category:

http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Pets/Sitters_and_Walkers/

Pet Sitters Yellow Pages

http://www.petsitters.com/

Just one page with a news article that's slightly related to pet care ... doesn't fit description anymore.

Pet Sitting Info

http://www.pet-sitting.info/

Pet-Sitters.biz

http://www.pet-sitters.biz/

Appear to be mirror sites.

arubin · June 19, 2006

item2564 done. Thanks.

phantomize · June 22, 2006

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Health/Dentistry/

The second entry is listed 3 times in Lebanon and twice in Health/. Also what about that dual-language title?

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Health/Equipment_and_Supplies/

Labora Health Care - seems to redirect to a no-content page.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Maps_and_Views/

Lebanon Panorama - listed twice under Lebanon.

Lebanon Tour Photo Album - wants you to go to http://www.arz-lebanon.com/ where the server is not found.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Recreation_and_Sports/Health_and_Fitness_Centers/

The description must have been written by the Maharishi himself.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Society_and_Culture/Organizations/

Al Massar - under construction.

Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) - "An academic think thank. "

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Society_and_Culture/Organizations/Emigr%c3%a9_Organizations/

Council of Lebanese American Organizations (CLAO) - redirects to http://www.clao.us/

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Society_and_Culture/Organizations/Heritage_Organizations/

The lone entry redirects to http://www.thisiscyberia.com/

srikondoji · June 22, 2006

Some broken links

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=sulekha

#5 is broken link

#6 doesn't point to the source mentioned

#7 doesn't point to the source mentioned

#8 doesn't point to the source mentioned

#10 doesn't point to the source mentioned

#11 doesn't point to the source mentioned

Looks like some editor reinstated some links which were removed few days ago for same reasons.

Thanks

sri

srikondoji · June 22, 2006

Looks like search index is not updated.

When i visited the respective categories, those entries were already removed.

--sri

jeanmanco · June 22, 2006

#2566 dealt with, thanks.

phantomize · June 23, 2006

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Beirut/

CNN Weather - wants you to go to another url.

Technodent dental laboratory - wants you to go to one of 3 urls.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Beirut/Education/

Al Kawthar Secondary School - didn't see any English.

Alahliah School - goes to a no-content page.

Beirut International School (BIS) - a one-word description...

The Center for Orientation and Documentation - connection failure.

Law and Society, Center for Comparative Studies - under construction.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Beirut/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels_and_Motels/Hotels/

Beirut Marriott Hotel - bad url, maybe use http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/BEYLB

Hildon Hotel - another one-word desc.

Hotel Le Gabriel - redirects to netways.com

Severa hotel listings have only 2 or 3-word descriptions.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Metn_District/Mazraat_Yachouh/

Mazraat Yachouh - looks like a hijacked site.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Metn_District/Brummana/Education/

Two of the 3 listings have no descriptions.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Metn_District/Brummana/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

Hotel Garden - another one-word desc.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Kesrwan_District/Jounieh/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels_and_Motels/Hotels/

Hotel Residence Adriatic - redirects to netways.com

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Shouf_District/Beit_El_Din/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/

The lone entry redirects to netways.com

There are 20 bookinn.com listings and many seem to go to netways, like http://www.bookinn.com/homepage/ecluse/ and http://www.bookinn.com/homepage/gabriel/ among others I'm sure.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Shouf_District/Damour/

Bad title for the lone entry.

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Lebanon/Mount_Lebanon/Baabda_District/

TandaConsulting - probably should be titled T&A Consulting.

HulaSkater · June 23, 2006

40 Inline Skating Pages That No Longer Exist

I created the pages listed below when I was the inline skating editor for About.com, but I left About.com in 2003, and the pages were taken off-line about a year later, when they hired a new editor. When one of the ODP editors has a chance, can these pages please be removed from Open Directory, since they no longer exist? I believe they are all listed in regional per-country and per-state "sports and recreation" categories.

Inline Skating in Argentina

http://inlineskating.about.com/msubmenu-region-ar.htm

Inline Skating in Finland

http://inlineskating.about.com/msubmenu-region-fi.htm

Inline Skating in Spain

http://inlineskating.about.com/msubmenu-region-es.htm

Inline Skating in Germany

http://inlineskating.about.com/msubmenu-region-de.htm

Inline Skating in Colorado

http://inlineskating.about.com/msubmenu-region-us-co.htm

Inline Skating in Ohio

http://inlineskating.about.com/recreation/inlineskating/msubmenu-region-us-oh.htm