Hi, My site was there in dmoz but is no more ( i have resubmitted the site)can anyone please check and let me know whether it can be relisted. Thanks in advance for any help. domain is bharatbhasha.com and category is Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Services: Free Content
There could be several reasons. It may have been down temporarily when our automated QC tools went through, and removed temporarily until an editor can take a look at what the problem was. It could have been moved to a more appropriate category or subcategory. The content may have changed and it no longer meets the Directory's needs, or it might be a site that should never have been listed in the first place. No, we don't do site status reports for site owners, we're not a listing service, we build categories. A site is either needed in a category or it's not, . No site has a right or any promise to be listed, and we don't want all sites, just the sites that will make the category a good resource for the web surfer.
hi thanks for the input but can i ask one question ? There are many sites in that directory which are in the same niche i.e article directories. Ours is also a article directory then why cant we be listed?
Because it does not conform to the guidelines, that is to say, it does not have the required amount of unique content to warrant a listing. If it does, then it would still be listed. A site that gets kicked for down time can be kicked with as little as 15 minutes of down time, and the editor that bumped it would not think twice... however, by my understanding, it would get sent back to the queue rather then getting deleted. In which case, it should be re-listed in a few days/months/years or whenever another editor happens across it.
Yes, true. It's usually one of our automated QC tools that does that, and it's not deleted, it's waiting for a live human editor to come along and double check it. We spend a lot of time doing that, and even run searches to try to find out if the site has a new url.
That is not quite correct, and is compounding Qryztufre's misinformation. The automated tool that removes dead sites into unreviewed does not just visit them once and remove them, it visits them again a few days later. A site getting removed for being down for a few minutes would likely be done manually and would be a rarity.
I'm sorry, but what misinformation? I'm talking through experience with the ODP and nothing more. You yourself just said that it is a rarity, which does mean it happens. So again, why must you keep saying I am spreading misinformation then agree with the exact thing I said?
Sure, your post left the reader with the impression that a likely reason for a site being removed was that is down for a few minutes. This could happen however is not that likely. A site that "that gets kicked for down time" would normally need to be down for 24 hours or more to get flagged by the automatic tool that is responsible for the removal of all but a few of the non responsive sites. If you had of conveyed this information then your post would not be so misleading.