New site description

Hi all,

Please go easy on me, as I am trying to word this as polite as possible (my grammar sometimes leads others to think the opposite <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
Anyway... Roughly June 2002 I requested an update URL (new description) for my Website, which may I add had went through some major redesign (look, feel, navigation, removal of sizable images), content update &amp; SEO. I then submitted the update URL for the description that used to be assigned to my Website before (I have been in the ODP since roughly 1999) as expected I heard nothing back for some months (but I was prepared for that) so in November I resubmitted again with the same request, only to get back an email that was extremely rude threatening me with removal if I continued to persist emailing the ODP with a submission that was correct for my site! This explanation I would have expected had there not been any changes to my site over time. But I feel with the site having done what I previously mentioned along with having more content it at least deserved a new description. My site has a very small description (7 words) in comparison to others in the same category. For a keyword search in all other SE’s Directories with relevance to my site I have a number one placing in the ODP I am currently listed #35 this I feel might be down to the description (perhaps I am wrong in this assumption please correct me if I am wrong).

Anyway guyz thanks for any help/light you may be able to shed on the matter : )

-gs

Descriptions are usually only changed if they are incorrect - if the focusof the site changes it may be altered, but not just because you now provide an extra service - several extra services...maybe. As to the number of words in the description, that's just the luck of the draw - some editors are quite terse, some rather verbose.

Unless the current description is innacurate it may not be changed. That said the guidelines for describing sites have changed over the years, and your current description may be in need of updating. Without knowing the site or category I really cant tell.

Regarding keyword relevancy and result position in the DMOZ search, not only don't we care, but neither should you. Almost no-one from the public uses dmoz search to find sites, rather to find categories. We don't do keywords, and I might add we don't repeat words from the category path name and title, which seems to be something a lot of submitters expect to happen (We'd never have Category/Weddings Wedding Dancers-Dancers at weddings)

Ahh! It's the site in your profile.
My last comment hit the problem on the head *before* I found the site. If you submit an update you need to say what change has been made to the site that is not covered by the description. (I still havent't looked at the site, am just replying based on what I can see from the current listing and it's location in the directory).

Hope this helps. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Fast enough reply for an Aternative Future?

Many thanks for pointing out that points to me gimmster, I never realised that most people used the category to a text search (perhaps it's just me that is still stuck in the time warp <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

I will have another read through the posting guidelines and see what I can do to improve...

Once again thanks <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

-gs
[added]LOL my disguise has gone <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" alt="" />[/added]