Statuc check - www.mygreencorner.com

[dugu]

I'm pretty sure I submitted my directory to Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/ last year, and this year to Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion/Directories/.
Please let me know.
Thanks

[exeditor]

It assume it would have been or will be deleted as it does not appear to come close to meeting the listing requirements for a directory (ie lack of unique content)

[dmzscrooge]

www.mygreencorner.com would not be listable as it would not meet the amount of content to be listed as a directory. Directories must have a lot of listings and also add value to the category which in all fairness is something very have to do these days.

[dmzscrooge]

And yes... one of them was deleted. The other one I cannot check.

[dugu]

www.mygreencorner.com would not be listable as it would not meet the amount of content to be listed as a directory. Directories must have a lot of listings and also add value to the category which in all fairness is something very have to do these days.

Let's take Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/
I look at http://www.ewebpages.org/ that is listed.
I don't see any unique content that you are talking about.
I look at http://www.sevenseek.com/.
Same.
Let's take Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion/Directories/
http://www.submitservices.com/


Now let take my directory:
- it provides professional SEO services
- it has unique free phpld templates
- it has unique free wordpress templates
- it teaches about using worm tea when gardening
- it has a list of good directory tops
- it has free webmaster tools
- it has online SEO tools, a blog (in which I admit I don't write very often, but still)
- it gives the possibility of featuring a link in My Green Corner network
- you can learn how to build a directory exactly like that from a tutorial build by me, using some additional tools for administration a directory.
- I have 27000 sites in my list
So, where is the problem?

[dmzscrooge]

Here are a few useful line as a point of reference:

1: Site are always under review and no site is going to always be sure of a listing
2: The ODP does not aim to list every site just a comprehensive collection of.
3: No listing is permanent

Directories are the hardest type of site to list and in all honesty most of the directories listed would not get in these days. The reason that they are still listed is likely down to editor time and motivation; its a spammy area and anyone editing there really does need to have good eyesight to see the wood for the tree's.

I have to agree in part with what you say about some of the listed sites just not cutting it... they don't and hopefully there listing will be short lived.

The other side of this is that to be honest most of the directory categories have found themselves redundant simply due to the growth of the ODP. From a user perspective the ODP prefers to link to 'the site' instead of a 'another_site_that_links_to_another_site'. You have to remember that the ODP is a directory and due to the site of it you now have to ask yourself what does your directory offer that the contents of the ODP has?

1: You have 27000 sites - the ODP has more over a wider spectrum
2: SEO services is not really a related topic but for SEO services we have plenty already listed in http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/W...ent/Promotion/ - Maybe if you offer SEO services and have a dedicated site you may submit??
3: All the other factors you mention have no relevance to the category submited and the reviewing editor would not really take that into account.

I am not trying to be negative about your site I am just saying how categorisation works in the ODP. My view is simply that there is insufficient content on any single given topic for a listing in any area mentioned.

[dugu]

Well, I have read what you said.
The bottom line is that a directory, by definition, just can't have unique content. It still remains a index with categories, where people are submitting their site. The only thing a directory owner could do is to add more features, web tools, seo stuff, articles and so on.
Now, I'm not pointing any fingers and I don't care about the other directories out there that are listed and that deserve or not to be in odp. I just look at my directory and find it deserves to be in odp more then lots of directories out there, for lots of reasons. And I don't want to be mean, but I know that several directories got into ODP a few weeks ago, so the "they are there because they got stuck by the growth of the ODP, but they will not be in a short while" is out of the question. However approved them, denied my listing, and that is what upsets me.

[dugu]

Well, if somehow the editor of the category in case reads this tread, I am going to ask him to send me a private message, so that I can find out his reasons and his personal opinion about my site, and this state of things.

[Energizer Bunny]

Originally Posted by dugu

Well, if somehow the editor of the category in case reads this tread, I am going to ask him to send me a private message, so that I can find out his reasons and his personal opinion about my site, and this state of things.

Sorry but above guys who posted their opinion were once on dmoz so they know more than any other editor you might get a pm from , that i am sure off.

But anyways good luck.

[dmzscrooge]

Sorry but above guys who posted their opinion were once on dmoz

And I still am.

The main reason I, personally, would not list the site is "My view is simply that there is insufficient content on any single given topic for a listing in any area mentioned."

The fact that an already listed site is no longer any good would only result in the deletion of that site; not the inclusion of a comparable or better site.

Editors are human and opinions can and do vary. But, as a directory, I would safely say that your site would not be listed. In some categories more than 50% of the sub cats are empty and those that have listing are single figure. There is no conspiracy or anything and communicating with any editor in relation to a listing would be fruitless as the answer would be the same and they cannot do anything about it. We get requests like this every day; you only have to go to Resource Zone to see why status checks where stopped.

Your site may well be a good one but it does not make it listable in the ODP - we have different aims and objectives.