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CollectionDX
Jun 8th 2004, 10:45 am
Anyone have luck getting their site listed in about.com? Thats a directory with human editors, correct?

I never get any replies back.
North Carolina SEO
Jun 8th 2004, 12:54 pm
Anyone have luck getting their site listed in about.com? Thats a directory with human editors, correct?

I never get any replies back.

No luck as yet. I'll be very interested in the other replies you get to this question.
Bernard
Jun 8th 2004, 1:02 pm
I've tried submitting/e-mailing the editor of a specific category without any luck/response as well.

However, an editor in another category that I never contacted did show me some love. :)
mopacfan
Jun 8th 2004, 2:12 pm
No love here. And now, with the redesign of about, it's nothing more than another yahoo or msn portal. It no longer has the human editor input design or interface. All I see are ads and 'prepackaged crap' on the site. I think they really hurt themselves trying to become like everyone else instead of being who they were.
vinyl
Jun 8th 2004, 3:29 pm
Same here - no replies no listings.
younghistorians
Jun 8th 2004, 5:39 pm
About.com is crap-I have a hard time believing many people use it considering it's huge amount of ads/popups.
schlottke
Jun 8th 2004, 8:12 pm
I use it for certain things- they do have a nice amount of articles and other things of use. Get Adsubtract and the ads are gone.. I don't remember the last time I was bothered.
GuyFromChicago
Jun 8th 2004, 8:22 pm
Anyone have luck getting their site listed in about.com? Thats a directory with human editors, correct?

I never get any replies back.

I tried too - same result. No reply.
digitalpoint
Jun 8th 2004, 8:31 pm
Someone uses, because I get lots of traffic from:

http://websearch.about.com/cs/onlinetools/gr/digitalpoint.htm
schlottke
Jun 8th 2004, 9:56 pm
How can they list those as CONS? "Only tracks Google rankings" The ability to track other results in the same way isn't available and "Must setup seperate logins to track seperate campaigns" isn't even true.
SEO_AM
Jun 8th 2004, 10:04 pm
From the above responses... It is obvious, why waste your time. I don't.
Owlcroft
Jun 11th 2004, 11:47 pm
I did get listed, but it took a lot of effort. But, as memory serves, aren't they in that class that hides links in JavaScript?
disgust
Jun 12th 2004, 12:04 am
not javascript, but it does use an exitcounter thing
North Carolina SEO
Jun 12th 2004, 5:27 am
This is just one of the reasons I enjoy this forum so much. It reconfirms my suspicions about not spending more effort/time with About.com.

Thanks Shawn!
CollectionDX
Jun 14th 2004, 11:27 am
Thanks everyone,

You confirmed my suspicions. I'll give up on them for now.