It has been over a month and I have not been listed in DMOZ nor given a rejection email. How long does it take to get listed?
Do a search http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=10043 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=60
You won't get a rejection email. It may take years Don't resubmit Work on your site Build your links elsewhere
Its been 14 months for me and still nothing, so dont hold your breath. Im not even in a hard keyword area.
Not to feel bad - no one's in a hurry to review my submissions either. j/k Did you submit to a regional category?
FYI, your site would only be listable in Regional - http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_Amer...onomy/Construction_and_Maintenance/Janitorial . (if your company is actually located in Pheonix) The problem is that there needs to be proof that the company has a bricks and mortar presence to verify the locality. I have gone through your site and do not find the physical address of your compnay. As it stands - this site is not listable.
1. Why would anyone want to advertise a cleaning service for Phoenix if he wasn't in Phoenix? 2. If for some unfathomable reason he did want to lie about offering cleaning services for Phoenix residents when in fact he only operated in Boston or Dallas, how would placing his address on his web site be proof that he was indeed in Phoeniz anyway?
It is the practice in Regional to place businesses in the locality where the business office is (there are some minor exceptions to this general rule). So is this business located in Pheonix or Santa Maria or Hyde Park Lodge or Alhambra or ......? We don't know because the information isn't available on the site. If the owner told us where the business is located (and didn't update the site) - it still can't be used, because only the information contained on the sites can be used to describe and place sites.
Once again, missing the point and misunderstanding the question... and therefore answering a question unasked with information already known. "She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Because usually there is 2 way of doing things, the right way and the DMOZ way. There are many stupid guidelines that make no sense at all, as we previously noticed with the name of web site and the discussion about summer's web site. Even when a profession is regulated by government such as Real estate agents, DMOZ refuses to recognize the license issued by a professional or government agency and instead let an editor that has no knowledge in that business to decide if that person has the right to exercise his profession.
Do editors look for reasons to include sites when they review them, or do they strictly look for reasons to exclude them?
http://www.arizonabbb.org/60111-01.asp puts the business at: 9263 E. Milagro Avenue Mesa, AZ 85212 Added: I don't understand the reasoning for listing sites in Regional based on their location. This site is clearly applicable to the entire Phoenix metro area, so I think it should be listed in Regional/North_America/United_States/Arizona/Metro_Areas_and_Regions/Phoenix_Metro/Business_and_Economy/Construction_and_Maintenance/.
You are dangerously getting too close to being logical and reasonable which is against DMOZ policies, be careful.
Neither commonsense nor the ODP guidelines say that a site like this must be listed in a locality. The concern is that some webmasters create a stable of nearly identical sites with geographical differentiation to obtain as much exposure as possible. This reluctance to list sites that are vague about the location of their actual business is a result of that.
If a site is selling shirts or cheap drugs over the net, that might make sense. If you're selling a physical at-home service, as is the case with a carpet cleaning service, that makes no sense. This is another case of a DMOZ policy forumulated by and defended by people with little or no knowledge of either the web or the subject matter.
Generally, we list regional sites based on the area they serve if it's a company that goes to the consumer to provide a service. I agree with ishfish, this site belongs in Phoenix Metro. Phoenixcarpet, I think you may have submitted to the wrong category, do you remember which category you submitted to? Missubmitted sites always take longer and I couldn't find you anywhere so I went ahead and listed you in Phoenix_Metro.
If that's true, then most of the service businesses in Phoenix - Business and Economy should be moved the the Phoenix metro category as well.
Yes, ish, I think you're right. From what I've seen in the unreviewed Phoenix Metro sites it appears as though an editor is working on moving them.
LOL, while ...... in RZ are losing all relevance in regard to DMOZ, DP is becoming the unofficial / official DMOZ forum.