I submitted to DMOZ like 6 months ago, not listed yet, well I already know that it can take from months to years to be listed but all I want to know is whether I submitted to the best category: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Uni...ernet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/D/ The website is www.discountwebdesign.co.uk Thanks for your time and help
See http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html section entitled "Is it easy to assess the site's trustworthiness?" For example, the site of a trustworthy business or organization typically displays its official name and address, or includes industry-appropriate information about itself verifiable through a recognized third party. Put your address on the site (it is easily obtained from other sources in 2 minutes anyway) and submit the site to http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/West_Midlands/Walsall/Business_and_Economy/ as well. The location you give for yourself here in DP does not tally though and if that is where you are actually located then you cannot be listed anywhere in Regional...UK. You have to be located where the Regional category says - an accommodation address and a .co.uk can be obtained by anyone but such things would not qualify you.
I can assure you all the information given on the website is correct, the exact location is walsall, UK. According to you I can submit to the web design category ans also this regional category? The location I give here at DP is my location not for the office which is located in UK, you probably had a look at the website all the phone numbers are UK numbers. Let me know if I should submit again and to which category. Thank you for your time.
According to the Regional...UK Guidelines (not me) which are different to many other Regional country sections, your site would qualify for both but there is no actual address on the site itself. At least not one I could find readily. Some, not all, Regional editors consider the address to be an essential factor in a Regional listing - it shows the Regional relevance of the site. And as you can see by those relatively new guidelines I quoted that the lack of an address easily visible on a business site might conceivably provide an editor with a reason for rejection of the site. It is a decent site so you don't want to give any reason for rejection. It would take me a little under an hour to arrange a UK address and phone number from overseas. I could point anyone anywhere at a website and they can have a UK fax number for free in 5 minutes. The point of Regional is that the service is physically located in the location indicated by the category. If your business genuinely is located in the UK - your office is not simply a maildrop and your phones are answered by UK based employees and not redirected to Mauritius, then there is nothing wrong with asking for both Regional ... UK listings. The problem I would have is that you are implying it is your site, and saying that you are not in the UK. Simple question - where is the service actually delivered from? P.S. I actually know one of your customers (from your samples) - I used to be one of his and gave him some harsh feedback on his old website which I see you have improved upon. Small world. I actually listed his original website in DMOZ.
I take note of these new guidelines, thank you for informing me. Yes it's true that there's no physical address listed on the website, I will see if it can be added, will I need to submit again after adding the address. Just a little question, how will I know if the website is still in the queue or has been rejected? I can assure you that no customer phone calls are redirected to Mauritius, I am just the SEO doing all the directory submissions etc for the company website. I browsed through the DMOZ categories as suggested by another member, and found this category http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Full_Service/D/ Can I also submit to this category? Thank you. I don't really get your point here, what do you mean, please explain I don't want to sound bad but you signed up to dp just to say this, why your first post at dp is in this thread?
If you suspect your original submission may have been rejected for lack of an address then resubmitting it would be OK. If it has not been reviewed yet then a resubmission will simply overwrite the original. I am no longer a serving editor so cannot do a status check for you. Some editors are happy to do that if they see the request. Web designers can submit in this branch but make sure you read the definitions of full service and if you don't fit exactly find another web developer category that is a better fit. My last recollection was that there were about 25,000 web designer sites waiting for review in one Computers branch category or another. Don't hold your breath. Not speaking for DPlurker but the existence of a closely related site is of significance for DMOZ. Only one will be listed and the other one will be clearly marked as unlistable. Also if you have submitted both then you will have breached DMOZ submission guidelines on multiple submissions. It is highly unlikely to result in a ban and but it will not endear you to editors as it means they have to check for other potential mirrors and related sites that may have been submitted or might be. It is possible that the extra work could delay listing as it is not as straightforward as others waiting for review. If you have not submitted the other one then it should have no effect timewise but editors will retain the option to select the other URL as what they deem to be the primary one rather than the one you mentioned as having submitted.