Search Question - Key Words

Re: www.beatingtiredness.com

Hi, I hope you can help us. We recently got a site listing for our website on dmoz.org. The only thing is that the main key words, including those in the title don't bring up our site. Even if we use the category name as a key word, "West Leederville" our site still doesn't come up in the list. We do have meta tags as per the directions on the help page. Is there anything else I can do so that our site shows up. At the moment I don't know how people will be able to find us.

I appreciate your help.

Best wishes,

Nick Dale

If "recently" listed you probably aren't in the search database yet. That likely won't be updated for a couple weeks. Also, people don't often search dmoz. It's not a search engine. The search engines that use dmoz will list your site just fine, and your site URL words are in you listing, plus apparently your site title too (your name). Your site seems to be offline now so I can't check to see if that is in fact your site title.

The search index was updated on 29th January, but the data it was updated with came from slightly earlier than that. Since your site was only listed on 27th, it may be that the update didn't include your listing. Before you ask, the search index is normally updated once a week, but technical problems mean that it won't be updated for a couple of weeks or more.

Besides all that, the ODP is a directory, not a search engine. People find sites by using the directory structure to find groups of sites that meet their requirements. We do not add keywords to listings, and the search system is not designed to work in that fashion. If you want to enter keywords to find your site, go to Google.

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The search at dmoz.org is supposed to help end users find the correct category within the ODP, or, more usually, find several related categories that contain the information that they are looking for. When the user then looks inside the category it should list a whole bunch of sites that cover the topic of interest. The ODP is a directory, not a search engine.