qualifying in 2 categories

[SearchWerx]

I need to know whether or not this site www.prospectsinfluential.com qualifies to be listed in 2 categories. They are already listed in a general cat but they are a canadian company providing services to Canada so would this qualify to get listed in the regional category?

thanks for you help.

It should.
Looking at the site though it contains no information on where the company is (no street address/office location/po box).
Regional listings are based on company prescence, not coverage area.
Ciao

Actually, a site can also be listed in Regional if it is about some place. For example, "Visitors Guide to Podunk" can be listed under Podunk even though the site has no physical presense there.

[windharp]

@Dr P:
Yes of course, but the travel-guide you quote is thematically listing in Regional [img]/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] So it normally would just qualify for one listing there.

[SearchWerx]

Thanks for the input and it's all starting to make sense.

What about a site that has several distinct products. My client at www.flextech-ind.com is listed under the cat for pipe,tubing,ducting. They also manufacture expansion joints so would they qualify to be under the second cat: Fluid and Gas Control: Valves, Hoses, Fittings. Would it also be possible to change the description? They recently changed their site and product offerings so the first editor would not have known about expansion joints.

What would be the right procedure in asking for a second category without the risk of losing the first category listing?

[hutcheson]

>>What would be the right procedure in asking for a second category without the risk of losing the first category listing?

There is no such procedure. An editor may, upon re-review from the point of view of the new topic, reconsider the appropriateness of other listings.

In a case like this (two sorta-related lines of business), there are several possibilities:

1) list the site in each subcat.
2) delete both subcats, but list the site in the parent cat (describing its two lines of business)
3) list the site in one subcat, but mention at the end of the description: "also offers ..."

The editor should make that decision based on his impression of the focus, breadth, and depth of the site; and his best judgment of how to be fair to similar sites and best serve the user. There can't be a general hard-and-fast rule, although Shopping sites are (quite rightly) less-likely-than-any-other-kind-of-site to receive multiple listings.

[SearchWerx]

Thanks Hutcheson. Would you recommend I go to the directory and "update url" to request the change?

[hutcheson]

I would so recommend.

After looking at your site, I don't think you need to worry about losing the pipes&duct listing altogether; the worst (from a crude link-count SERP perspective) that could happen would be that it would be moved to a higher level category (and with the new product line added to the description.)

[hutcheson]

>>They recently changed their site and product offerings so the first editor would not have known about expansion joints.

I went over to do the "minimal" update, that is, to add "expansion joints" to the current description. But it already mentions them.

I don't edit enough in Manufacturing to know whether those two categories are "too close together" for a site to be cross-listed in them, so I won't add a second listing, or move to the one to a higher level (my guess is that the former is more likely to be done in this case.) If you'd prefer one listing in a higher category, do a "change URL". If you'd prefer a second listing, then do an "Add URL" in the second category. (Of course, the final decision is still the editor's.)

Another thing you might consider -- obviously this factory resides in some locality (in BC). The website mentions a couple of addresses, but I didn't see any other location-specific information. HOWEVER: If the website had a bit more about the local factory (say, a page about what kinds of employment opportunities are typically available, a blurb about what public service projects the company or employees sponsor locally, etc...) as an occasional Regional editor, I would be VERY comfortable adding the site to the appropriate Localities category in Regional/N.A./Canada/BC/Localities/whatever. Some more active Regional editors might consider that the site ALREADY has enough regional relevance to be listed -- after all, there is a local phone number and address.