site description update

Please help me to update my site description for my current web site. Is there an editor out there that would be able to help? I only would like the description to be shortened. Please send a private message and I can give you the details. I have been trying to update this for many months via your web site update link. Nothing has happened. Many thanks for any help, it's much appreciated!!!

Use the "update" function in the category where the site is listed, add the relevant details, and submit it.

The "Thank You" screen is your confirmation that it was sent.

An editor will get to it at some point - updates are easy to spot, they are no longer mixed in with the suggestions for new listings.

Whizzzzz said:

I have been trying to update this for many months via your web site update link.

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It sounds like you have already submitted an Update Request. If your suggestion has already been reviewed and no change occurred, the reviewing editor most likely found the existing description within ODP guidelines and saw no valid reason to alter it.

An editor might have reviewed my description. However, what he/she wouldn't know is that my business has changed so that the description is incorrect. Of course nobody else would know that but me. Only some words would have to be deleted in the description. No new or additional writing is necessary. Maybe, there is a way to help me out of this dilemma. I would be very grateful.

If it is not obvious from the website that the nature of your business has changed, then the description will not change.

The editor has a job of reviewing websites. What appears in the description is supposed to be a brief description of what is to be found on the site itself, not by calling the owner, visiting the store, or exchanging emails with the webmaster.

So if you wish for your description to more accurately reflect your business, you need to make sure that your website does the same, then submit a new update request.

Thanks

Actually my website has changed substantially in its look to support my request. If one were to look at it the change would only make sense. I would never ask something that would be unreasonable. The current description just misrepresents my work as it is now. Therefore a change would help. Thank you.

Did you add something like [no long sell widgits] in the reason for change part of theupdate request. This is where you can call attention to the changes.

Some generic advice that may or may not apply to you:

When submitting an update request, stay focused. If you are trying to correct a factual error, then only suggest a change that addresses the factual error. If you try and use the update request to wordsmith the title and try to slip in a few keywords in the description, the editor may simply assume that you are trying to SEO your listing and decline it, completely missing the factual error. Given that the vast majority of update requests, like submissions, are simply another form of directory spam, this can happen quite easily. So if you want an error corrected, make sure that it is:
1) reflected in the content of the website,
2) the only thing you ask for.

Taking these two steps will greatly increase your odds.

Whizzzzz said:

Actually my website has changed substantially in its look to support my request. If one were to look at it the change would only make sense. I would never ask something that would be unreasonable. The current description just misrepresents my work as it is now. Therefore a change would help. Thank you.

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Then I apologize, because I misunderstood you - I read what you wrote to mean that only you knew there were changes (which is why you needed to speak to an editor) - oin other words that it wasn't obvious in any other way.

I see now that I misunderstood and I am sorry.

Alucard said:

Then I apologize, because I misunderstood you ... I see now that I misunderstood and I am sorry.

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Now that's professionalism! I'm not speaking specifically about members here per se, but I see in too many places today where combativeness overtakes courtesy. It is refreshing to see someone take onus - thanks for proving integrity still exists