Description update request for seacrofthotel.co.uk

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aspwiz

Hi...
when performing this search:-
Eastbourne Hotel

only 2 results are listed.
We are however a hotel in eastbourne, and our site is in the eastbourne hotels category:-
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/East_Sussex/Eastbourne/Travel_and_Tourism/Accommodation/

Could some-one please just add the word 'eastbourne' somewhere in my description.... a couple of hotels are coming up for that search and I think it is very unfair, for us not to be showing.

Thanks for any help, or advice.
 

bobrat

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Re: Description update request for seacrofthotel.c

Actually the reverse should be done, the word Eastbourne should be removed from all descriptions in that category, it's redundant, since it's part of the category name.

BTW, we do not change descriptions in order to optimize searching.
 

donaldb

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I only see one listing coming up in that category with the word Eastbourne in the description, but thanks for pointing it out. Someone fixed that today and Eastbourne was removed from that description. It might take a while before it shows up in the public page and the search results.
 

Alucard

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Please understand that we are not trying to make our descriptions fit keyword searches in someone else's (or even our) search engine. We are building a directory which is useful to users - repeating a whole bunch of stuff that is in the category name is redundant for our purposes.

Ideally, we would like to see the usersof our data add the category name as a keyword for that entry - then users would be able to find it. But once again, that is really not what the ODP is about.
 
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