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2323
Joined: Oct 17, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Oct-17 20:25
Hi...new here. I've been reading the DMOZ site and these forms trying to figure out if DMOZ will accept sub domain urls.
I work for a travel company that offers accommodations on various islands and wanted to submit a sub domain url for every respective island.
Does DMOZ accept sub domain url submissions? Thanks for your help.
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skiguide
Joined: Feb 02, 2001
# Posts: 761
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Posted: 2003-Oct-17 20:55
Yes, subdomains are perfectly acceptable, although you are not guaranteed to get a separate listing for each island. deeplinks of subdomains and subdirectories are solely up to editor discretion.
A couple of tips:
1) if you're going the one subdomain-one island route, make sure there is plenty of unique, substantial content about the lodging and things to do on the island.
2) consider consolidating several islands that go together naturally as a region and put them together as a general guide to the area. it's one easy way to get enough content, and you'll probably have better luck getting these included at a higher level region, because it's even harder to get individual deeplinks under the same general heading,
for example, under: http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Caribbean/Travel_and_Tourism/
it may be very difficult to get a listing under lodging subcategories for each of those, so you may be better off grouping them or just going for one main listing under Lodging.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Oct-17 21:11
For an area such as that, which does see various "schemes" designed to try to get a site more listings than it deserves, I would just submit one page that covers all of the site.
The ODP usually treats a collection of pages, folders, sub-domains, and separate domains all as one complete site.
That is:
barbados.holiday.com
aruba.holiday.com
cuba.holiday.com
would all be treated in exactly the same way as:
www.holiday.com/barbados/
www.holiday.com/aruba/
www.holiday.com/cuba/
and the same as:
www.holiday.com/barbados.html
www.holiday.com/aruba.html
www.holiday.com/cuba.html
and so on.
Since this is a common spam technique, it always arouses editor suspicions.
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skiguide
Joined: Feb 02, 2001
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Posted: 2003-Oct-17 21:20
that's a good example, q1smd. it doesn't matter if you use subdomains or subdirectories(folders)
I would definitely emphasize that there are exceptions to the "one complete site" rule, but the quality of content has to support individual listings, and that it can't be an obvious attempt to stuff in listings, because you're right, that's a bit red flag to editors.
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2323
Joined: Oct 17, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Oct-19 20:23
Thanks Skiguide and q1smd, you guys were great.
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