Change of Description

Hi there,

Following some major changes in the category my site is listed under in dmoz, the company we bought out some time ago that was listed in dmoz was changed to our new company name and the link was changed to the new company website. This was great. However the description was not updated - thats fine as I recognise it is our job to do so. However, we have been waiting for some time (around 2-3 months) and I have submitted a couple of descriptions - just in case the first was deemed inappropriate for some unknown reason.

Ordinarily this would not be an issue, however as everyone is probably well aware, google now pulls out descriptions from dmoz in place of meta description tags. The effect of this is tragic, as we are a designer company and have a very non-designer description that is in no way a reflection of the products we are selling - this is certainly negatively effecting our business.

I understand it is not the role of editors on this forum to help get sites listed but wonder if it would be possible for someone to assist me with this case. i also understand i cannot post links here so wonder if someone is sympathetic to my needs whether I can send details via PM to them.

Thanks in advance

Andy

andyorch said:

Ordinarily this would not be an issue, however as everyone is probably well aware, google now pulls out descriptions from dmoz in place of meta description tags.

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Well, if you´re worried that Google (or other searchengines) will use a snippet from the ODP description, you may want to use the NOODP-meta tag:

http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-control-over-page-snippets.html

thanks

thanks for that information, much appreciated - i made the meta changes. Maybe sheer coincidence, but my description tag was changed yesterday in dmoz - if it wasnt by coincidence then many thanks to the person responsible.

As nobody here knows your url, it was probably something in the description an editor spotted and corrected as part of our normal editing responsibilities. I often stop and add something to a description that looks incomplete.

(Well, he did say he'd submitted update requests - it's likely that that's what triggered the update )

Ahh, sorry, I missed that, . Update requests do get taken care of quickly.