22 replies to this topic

[Jill]

So who submitted us to DMOZ?

The forum is listed there now too!



Jill

[dimok]

Heh. You have friends

Zeal listing too: http://www.zeal.com/...ml?cid=10156531

[qwerty]

Editors are supposed to find sites on their own -- they don't just deal with submissions. And this place is pretty easy to find. It got very visible very quickly

[Bernard]

The Zeal listing has been unpublished:

http://www.zeal.com/...dit&id=19256853

[Jill]

The Zeal listing has been unpublished:

http://www.zeal.com/...dit&id=19256853

Huh??? What the heck. Commercial?

This forum is commercial? I don't think so!

Nice going Zeal...

[Denyse]

I guess DMOZ knows a good thing when it sees one.

And at the risk of repeating myself... I LOVE THIS FORUM

Denyse

[qwerty]

I just sent a message to the Zeal editor who declared the forum to be commercial. Maybe he'll have a look and change his mind.

[deborah2002]

What is the definition of "commercial" anyway? At least, according to Zeal?

deb

[qwerty]

Have a look at Zeal's guidelines regarding commercial sites. Here's a snippet:

If the primary purpose of a site is to generate revenue or promote the sale of goods or services online or offline, then it is considered commercial.

I really don't see how this forum fits that definition, unless they're simply viewing it as a section of highrankings.com, which would be both inaccurate and inconsistent. Lots of non-commercial forums are connected to commercial sites.

[Jill]

Whomever submitted it, should really go back and appeal (if you're out there listening)!

From what I understood about Zeal, whole pages and sections of a site that were non-commercial are certainly allowed in.

Recently, they have not allowed my newsletter pages in either. That I could kind of understand because I have all the navigation to my services on those pages.

However, the forum doesn't have my usual navigation to all that. Yes, there's a link to the front page of HighRankings, but that's it. Just a link. No commercial stuff at all.

I have to completely disagree with their decision to call this forum commercial.

That said, I really don't give a hoot whether we're in Zeal! Their loss, not ours.



Jill

[qwerty]

The editor replied. I had written

I'm not clear about why you declared http://www.highrankings.com/forum to be commercial. It's connected to a commercial site, but that's very common among webmaster forums.

The High Rankings Forum is a non-commercial, informational site, and I think it deserves a listing.

And the editor wrote back

Yes, it was because it's connected with a commercial SEO offering.

Go figure....

[Jill]

Apparently there are some at Zeal who never got over my "LookSmart Looks Dumb Again" rants!

Now Zeal looks just as dumb as it's daddy. Shame.

Jill

<Added>Yahoo apparently disagrees with Zeal, as they added it for free recently.

[dragonlady7]

>You have friends

Must be nice.

I wish I had a site that was innately useful enough that it got added to ODP without my doing so...

[Jill]

I wish I had a site that was innately useful enough that it got added to ODP without my doing so...

It doesn't happen by wishing...

Make it so!

[Haystack]

Apparentely Zeal can't make up its own mind about their definition of a commercial listing. In this case, the site was submitted by someone who's contributed a total of two sites, approved by a LookSmart employee who's contributed 6497 sites, then later removed by that same editor. You'd think someone with that much Zeal experience would understand the definition of a commercial site, right?

http://www.zeal.com/...le.jhtml?uid=99