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Jos
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Brick and Mortar Sites
Posted on 08/15/05 at 07:44:43 GMT |
Is there some main reason we are not putting any of these sites that are strictly specific to a location into their region in Regional?
At one time we were copying them, but it got so there would be just too many. Seems as though a good many of our sites are not North America or World sites, but rather they are regional. Especially UK seems to submit a lot of them, along with India.
I know at ODP the policy was to put sites specific to a region into Regional. Occasionally there will be some that are also useful to the general world public, whereupon those would be the ones that were copied.
Just wondering what Crystal and everybody thinks about this - Is it better to have a well built Regional category holding all types of region-specific sites, or is it better to have a mix throughout the directory and keep Regional only for "Goverment and political sites, local guides, along with news and media" as phrased in the current description of Regional.
I'm often confused about whether this is intended or rather that things just accumulated that way over the course of time.
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CrystalZ
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Re: Brick and Mortar Sites
Posted on 08/16/05 at 01:25:51 GMT |
We actually did have a discussion regarding this Jos a long time ago.
If we are planning on placing businesses back into Regional I would like to remove myself as the Editor for that category. I don't want to bang my head against the wall worrying about the near-impossible @linking between business and Regional (Regional is broken down by country not business type and this would require massive breakdowns for like 1 site in Regional and empty cats over in business to hold that one @link), the ways to split sites, etc.
It can also be argues that 99% of the structure can be in Regional: holidays (after all we don't all celebrate Memorial Day etc), services (after all not to many pet groomers offer their services worldwide), financial sites (finical stuff obviously varies greatly between countries), online shopping (lots of them dont ship outside their country), etc etc etc.
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Jos
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Re: Brick and Mortar Sites
Posted on 08/16/05 at 02:30:54 GMT |
They wouldn't need to be @linked. What it would be is a local resource for people looking for something in their own area. If you don't wish to manage Regional, that's fine with me. But I'll just stay away from it for now since it seems to have become an issue.
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CrystalZ
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Re: Brick and Mortar Sites
Posted on 08/16/05 at 03:59:52 GMT |
So banks in Canada shouldn't be @linked to/from the main Financial category? That seems kind of weird to me seens as they are connected.
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Jos
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Re: Brick and Mortar Sites
Posted on 08/16/05 at 07:24:09 GMT |
CrystalZ wrote:
So banks in Canada shouldn't be @linked to/from the main Financial category? That seems kind of weird to me seens as they are connected.
No they usually aren't @linked. That's one thing I never liked about Regional is that everything seems kind of lost in there. But it does provide a nice local resources section for each area. Once a directory gets big, I guess it would be a lot better to have a good Regional cat. I never did have much attraction to it myself but I see the purpose the more I get familiar with the way things work.
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Magnolia
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Re: Brick and Mortar Sites
Posted on 08/20/05 at 12:31:46 GMT |
Nothing like being brand new and jumping into the fray......
DMOZ allows a double submit if you are a bricks and mortar and plainly state your street address on the site. They aren't real good about telling people that but it's in their guidelines. Why not consider changing submission guidelines to include the info on being allowed to add to a regional cat IF they meet the criteria. Put the "burden" of the second submission back on the poster.
Alright, two opinions from the new kid in less than 24 hours, I've overspent my quota. Leaving now to figure out how to use this IM feature you all keep talking about. 
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