No, the site submited was not from my signature. It was http://arrangeyourvacation.com and I think there is enought unique content.
At a quick glance it looks alot like http://www.thailand-vacationrentals.com and even http://www.spain-vacationrentals.com. The Travel and Tourism Categories are full of mirrors, duplicates, spam, copied content, etc. Makes it very unappealing for an editor to spend much time on. When they look and see that the site looks like half a dozen others it makes it more likely they skip it to look for something much more unique. I am not saying that its not listable (mainly because I didn't look that hard) but in looking at it, what I did see was the areas where good unique content is found in these types of sites was filled with duplicated and mirrored content found on these and other sites I looked at. One of them is most likely listable, just would take someone with more patience than me to weed through them and try and determine which one 'appeared' to be the original and which ones were just mirrors/copies/etc.
That is nonsense! Yes I'm using the same frame as a template for many of my sites (all elements are positioned identicaly). How could http://www.thailand-vacationrentals.com be a mirror of http://www.spain-vacationrentals.com ! Thailand=Spain ! Identical content ?? May be you mean same subject - "vacation rentals"? Anyway, in my opinion dmoz is crap. There are 1000.. good directories out there (most free)... Why for God's sake someone need dmoz! I will never submit to dmoz anymore!
It sounds like from your own description these are cookie-cutter sites, duplicate content or not. Why not merge them into one directory that is actually helpful, like www.vacationrentals.com?
I'm thinking minstrel is right. If that's the case, we appreciate your decision to not submit to DMOZ anymore.
This is exactly why its useless to try and provide site status or advice, I should have known better. What minstrel said is 100% correct.If you have 3, 4,5, 100 vacation rental sites, dmoz would be much more interested in listing one main site that tied them all together, rather than listing a dozen duplicate content templated sites from the same company. As I said, I didn't look really deeply into any of these. I just looked at where the unique content would be typically found and it was pretty much word for word across the board. Doesn't make for anything unique beyond the listings themselves (which is some cases was also duplicated.
Ok. Not sure where the hostility is comming from. If dmoz is crap and you don't see why anyone needs it and it holds no value, why do you put so much effort into suggeting sites that do not meet the odp guidelines? I totally agree with you that you should seek out the 1000 other good directories to promote your business since that is not the purpose of dmoz.
If everyone who is not listed in DMOZ starts to post a note to that effect, this will be the longest thread in history.
It might be worthwhile focussing more effort on one of these unlisted ones. At the end of the day whoever considers reviewing one of your sites it all boils down whether there is some unique content or not.
Not really, Croatian category has single editor who can cover everything and he has become tired of the whole thing so he isn't very active (also he is neither editall nor meta so he can't do anything like recruit new editors), there are few minor ones but non covers categories where my websites would go, I attempted to expand in that direction by raising my edit counts and got removal as reward. My content can hardly get any more unique since it is available only on my websites (besides some forum copy/paste thieves which I mercilessly hunt down and kill).