Hi everyone,

I have been submitting my one site Medical Scrubs, Nursing Uniforms, Lab Coats, Accessories from MedicalScrubsRus to dmoz for over 6 months now and still not getting a listing. My other site Varicose Veins Treatment Center - Compression Stockings was listed in less than 2 months. Both were submitted in the same manner.

Anyone have a sugestion, trick, technique that might help me get listed? I resubmit every month.

Thanks,

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JBW
www.thelaserveincenter.com , www.medicalscrubsrus.com

A really dumb thing to do and against the guidelines! Every time you have resubmitted, you just overwrite the previous submission with the new date...you just move yourself to the bottom of the list each month! There is never a need to resubmit.

Well!!! Not the first really dumb thing I have done and probably not the last. I did get that advice from a "so called" SEO expert.

Thanks Martty, I will leave it alone.

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JBW
www.thelaserveincenter.com , www.medicalscrubsrus.com

I have a couple of sites listed in dmoz, but it seems to be a closed door these days. Anytime I launch a new site, I still submit to dmoz because naturally it can't hurt.

Check out the bottom of the category and see if there is even an editor there, if not try applying to become an editor, make yourself seem economically uninterested in the category.....

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>2000 new sites a week are added. Thats not a closed door; that makes it the fastest growing directory on the www. The problem is that >2000 good sites are created every week!Do NOT do that. There is nothing wrong with being an editor and having a site in a category. Just declare your interest in the application and when an editor, do everything "above board".

I agree, just let them know and you won't have a problem...

There is nothing wrong with submitting once every 3-4 months ... unless things have changed since I was an editor it does not overwrite your earlier submission and move you down the list ... nor does it really annoy most of the editors I knew to see a couple of submissions in the list of a category that is rare edited ... but if you have submitted it that many times it might be a bit much ...

Have you tried sending a very polite note to the editor? That does sometimes help ... though it may also fall on deaf ears ...

And applying to edit the most relevant category is an excellent idea ... a client of mine just got accepted and voila, his site is now added!

Cheers, MJ

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M.-J. Taylor
SEO Web Design by Cyber Key Search Smart Design® SEO Copywriter & Traveling Vacation Gypsy

If its submittd to the same category it overwrites the previous submission!! Where are you getting your information from? This was implemented by DMOZ years ago to deal with all the repeated resubmissions.

Editors can sort the pool of suggested site a number of ways - the default and most common one is by date of submission. A resubmitted site will be moved to the bottom if the editor sorts by date (most do).

There is NOTHING to be gained from resubmitting; all it does is wastes the submitters time.

Well, I was an editor *years* ago - more than 5 - so perhaps that was changed since I left ...

Well, I am not sure how anyone would know what most do. In any case, I always worked from the oldest submission up.

I wouldn't agree. It is possible that an earlier submission was rejected and deleted. Perhaps the quality was low or the editor just didn't like the site. So, submitting again does make sense, as you don't know whether it's still in the queue or not ...

AFAIK, MJ

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M.-J. Taylor
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