How to improve my site to get it listed?

[Guest jimcat]

Is there any things wrong so that site http://bigcatcat.com cannot be listed in ODP? How to improve it? Pls. advise.

[jimnoble]

We can't answer that sort of question here. It's probably better if you ask this in one of the webmaster forums such as http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/

[giz]

There is a site review section over at www.searchengineforums.com too.

[foetusized]

Since you are using ODP data in your directory, it will very likely not be listed in the ODP until you follow the license terms as shown on http://dmoz.org/license.html , particularly section 2 about the required attribution. See the Using ODP Data section of this forum for more information about the license -- Foe

[Guest jimcat]

Is this ok now? I don't know it needs to put the open directory resource box before. Now, I put it in every page.

[Guest]

I can see the box, but the links don't work as required.

 

I end up getting a page that includes

I'm sorry, we can't find the category [$cat]. You probably got here from a bad link on a site that uses our data.

 

The $cat in the link needs to be replaced by the name of the actual dmoz category.

 

Take the submit a site link on http://www.bigcatcat.com/pseek/Electronic_Products/ which currently says

http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=$cat

should be

http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Electronics as that is the actual DMOZ category.

 

the same applies to the 'Become an Editor' link.

 

[brmehlman]

[What was here was almost word for word identical to the above post, but using a different example category]

 

Since we're solely discussing license compliance here, I wonder if a moderator would be so kind as to move this thread to the Using ODP Data forum and leave a placeholder behind here?

[giz]

>> move this thread to the Using ODP Data forum <<

 

Appears to have been done.