Question regarding site description

When searching for the term, sportsbook at Google, HollywoodSportsbook.com appears 14th, with a title and description extracted from DMOZ. My question arrises due to the fact that all other keyword rankings refresh our meta-tags title and description automatically, at Google and any other SE world wide.

2 months ago I requested to DMOZ editors that our listing be updated. Is there any way to expedite this? Thanks DMOZ forum members for any feed back in helping resolve this issue.

Kind Regards,

OreoBob

If you request was to add keyword loaden title and description my guess is that your request is denied. You can read our guidelines about titles and description on http://dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html

We don't know and have no influence on the way Google or any other SE uses and presents our data.

Basically, it would be abusive for us to be tweaking listings with the purpose of affecting Google placement. So please don't ask. Thanks.

Thank you for your prompt reply. I was just courious why other websites, indexed within DMOZ had titles and descriptions completly different than those displayed at Google, however, HollywoodSportsbook.com remains the same at both entities - all of the time, for that one keyword phrase.

hutcheson, the purpose of requesting for the description to update upon tweaking tags on our end was in no way shape or form to abuse rankings, moreso to remain current. We've had the same description displayed at Google via DMOZ for over a year. The description never changes. Whereas other sites do is all.

That, you'd have to ask Google. I suspect canonicalization of URLs is sometimes part of the answer, but ... there are probably a couple hundred other parts, and (like a diesel truck engine) the Google engine has behavior that is simply not predictable by a separate examination even of ALL of its parts.

Will do, Thank you for the lead. I'd spent time researching on what the best action to follow was/is. WebCeo referred me to this forum for help. Again, your advise is appritiated.

The title and description written / approved by editors for the ODP listing is completely independent of what site-owners choose to put in thier meta tags. There may be some similarities abviously, but we we write the descriptions according to our guidelines and not the wishes of the webmaster. Having said that, if there's anything that's factually incorrect (or accidently doesn't meet the guidelines - editors are only human afte all) please feel free to submit an update request.

Google does what it wants with regard to displaying titles and text from the site. Usually it displays the sites own title and a snippet of the actual pages content. Sometimes it falls back to the site's meta description, and sometimes to the ODP title and/or description - presumably they believe that in thse cases the ODP desciption is likely to be better for users...