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Submitting your web site to category Zimbabwe

  • Before you submit, please use the search facility to see if your URL is already in the Open Directory. Search separately on domain and title.
  • If your URL is not in the Open Directory, please ADD it to an appropriate category ...
    • Start at the Zimbabwe root level, then investigate plausible categories. Most of them have ...
      • lower-level sub-categories
      • related categories ("see also")
      • symlinks (with the @ suffix)
      ... investigate them all, and please read the category descriptions.
  • If your URL is already in the Open Directory, you may suggest that we UPDATE it.

Filling in the suggest URL form

  1. URL
    • Enter the fully-qualified URL (no redirects please).
    • If the URL is an index page to a directory, omit the file name, eg: index.html, index.shtml, default.html, etc.
    • If your URL is a splash page containing Java, Flash or other plug-ins, consider submitting an alternative page at your site.

  2. Title - should be the actual page title, but ...
    • For commercial sites, the title should be the name of the business.
    • Remove waffle, eg: "Welcome to ...", and superfluous text, eg: "... Home Page".
    • Remove anything resembling promotional language.
    • Do not capitalise

  3. Description - should be similar to your description meta-tag (if you have one), but ...
    • Don't try to spam the directory, don't try to trick Open Directory editors or users - it will work against you!
    • Don't use promotional language. Your description should be objective and factual. It is in your own interests, especially if your web site is commercial - web users are becoming highly resistant to ad-speak. ODP editors are expected to remove gibberish!
    • More people will find your entry via search than by directory browsing - but not if your description consists of promotional language. Please make sure it is accurate, so we don't have to change it.
    • Write proper sentences in plain English, using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. Incorporate relevant keywords, provided that they really are used on your page.
    • Keep it fairly short - don't force us to edit it for you.

Please don't submit multiple pages from one domain - unless they are clearly about different topics.

Don't submit pages that are (or look) under construction.

Also read these ...

This category contains links to web sites about Zimbabwe - including businesses and organisations within Zimbabwe, and links to information and news from external sources.


Arts and Entertainment

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL..
Do not submit virtual galleries or shopping sites here - try Shopping: Visual Arts: Ethnic and Regional: Africa or one of its sub-categories.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Web sites about Zimbabwean artistic, cultural, and entertainment activities, events, institutions, organisations.

Business and Economy

Submitting your web site to Zimbabwe Business and Economy

  • If the scope of your business is local, eg: a hotel, please consider the sub-categories of Localities, which includes principal cities and resorts.
  • Before you submit, please use the search facility to see if your URL is already in the Open Directory. Search separately on domain and title.
  • If your URL is not in the Open Directory, please ADD it to an appropriate category ...
  • If your URL is already in the Open Directory, you may suggest that we UPDATE it.

Filling in the Add URL form

  1. URL
    • Enter the fully-qualified URL (no redirects please).
    • If the URL is an index page to a directory, omit the file name, eg: index.html, index.shtml, default.html, etc.
    • If your URL is a splash page containing Java, Flash or other plug-ins, consider submitting an alternative page at your site.

  2. Title - must be the name of the business, and nothing else.
    • Do not capitalise. Even if the actual page title includes waffle, don't include it in the form.

  3. Description - should be similar to your description meta-tag (if you have one), but ...
    • Don't try to spam the directory, don't try to trick Open Directory editors or users - it will work against you!
    • Don't use promotional language. Your description should be objective and factual. It is in your own interests, especially if your web site is commercial - web users are becoming highly resistant to ad-speak. ODP editors are expected to remove gibberish!
    • More people will find your entry via search than by directory browsing - but not if your description consists of promotional language. Please make sure it is accurate, so we don't have to change it.
    • Write proper sentences in plain English, using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. Incorporate relevant keywords, provided that they really are used on your page.
    • Keep it fairly short - don't force us to edit it for you.

Please don't submit multiple pages from one domain - unless they are clearly about different topics.

Don't submit pages that are (or look) under construction.

Also read these ...

A business directory for Zimbabwe. Commercial sites that are in Zimbabwe, or which provide original content about business and economic activities in Zimbabwe.

Education

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
Category Colleges and Universities@ is for tertiary education links -- universities, university departments and research units.
Submit other education links here.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean educational institutions, programs, opportunities and resources.
Tertiary education links are in Colleges and Universities@

Government

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Includes national and provincial government, law and military information.
Politics links are in Politics.

Health

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
One of the Society and Culture categories might be more appropriate.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Health and medical resources specific to the region.
Links about medical schools, faculty or students are in category Education

Localities

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Villages, towns, townships, cities, provinces ... places with a distinct identity. Links in these categories should be specific, and more-or-less restricted to, one place. Examples include: accommodation, city guides, local activities.

Maps and Views

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
If your link is about a particular place in Zimbabwe, rather than the country a a whole, one of the Localities categories might be preferable.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

This category may include links to maps, photograph sites, live web cams, satellite imagery ... any visual representation of Zimbabwe.

News and Media

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
Web sites consisting of syndicated headlines or links to offsite stories should be identified as such, and the source of headlines included in the site description. Sites that have no news content other than syndicated headlines will not be accepted.
Individual stories are in Reports.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

News and media sites specific to Zimbabwe -- including Zimbabwean newspapers, magazines, radio and TV; also external archives of news and reports about Zimbabwe.
Individual stories are in Reports.

Recreation and Sports

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Includes all hobbies, sports and participatory recreational activities specific to Zimbabwe. Also bird-watching.
Organised tours and services for visitors is in category Travel Services in Zimbabwe

Science and Environment

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe
No category description found

Society and Culture

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe

Sites that reflect the make up of Zimbabwe's people, history, resources and institutions that serve its people.
Category Rhodesiana@ (resources about people who identify with a country that no longer exists) is not in the Regional: Africa: Zimbabwe hierarchy.

Transportation

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe Business and Economy
No category description found

Travel and Tourism

There is a sub-category for Zimbabwean tour operator web sites. Do not submit them here. Tour operators who are not Zimbabwean should submit to Regional: Africa: Business and Economy: Travel Services: Tour Operators. Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe
No category description found

Weather

Please check that this is the correct category before you submit your URL.
How to submit to category Zimbabwe
All weather-related sites for Zimbabwe.

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