status on - http://www.llwebdesigns.net

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llweb

• Sep 22, 2003

• #1

http://www.llwebdesigns.net/intro.htm
I was originally listed then removed after I requested an update. Am I in line to updated? I was listed in web design freelancer "L"

 

bobrat

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• Sep 22, 2003

• #2

And you are still listed there - look again.

However, your site appears to have been submitted to numerous other categories over the last few months. This cause extra work for editors, having to deal with a multiply submitted site, that already has been accepted.

 

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llweb

• Sep 24, 2003

• #3

Thank you for your response. I thought I could submit to more than one category, apparently I'm not suppose to do that. I apologize - I surely did not mean to give anyone extra work.

You stated that I am still listed - but I can't find it. I'm looking under: categories/internet/web design and development/freelancers/L

Where are you seeing LLWebDesignS.net (with an S after design)

 

nea

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• Sep 24, 2003

• #4

The category is Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Freelance/L/ and you are listed, as per the category guidelines, with your name as the title (lastname, firstname.) If you can't see it, reload the page just in case you have an old cached copy. Last update should be on September 1.

 

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llweb

• Sep 24, 2003

• #5

Thanks again for your response.

I clicked on your link, and yes I can see it from there. But I'm experiencing a couples of snags. The first is your link is different than the link that I am seeing. The link that I am going to (manually) is http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Freelance/L/
(this is where I was originally listed and I am not there now)

the link that you sent me to is
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Freelance/L/

The second is
I sent a request for an update because I don't want my last and first name listed. I requested a change to be listed as "LL Web DesignS.net" instead of Last, First name.

Also - Although I can see the URL from your link it has not been updated.

Thanks ,
Laura

 

bobrat

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• Sep 24, 2003

• #6

directory.google is a Google directory - although it is created from DMOZ data, it is NOT Dmoz/ODP, and it's contents are determined by Google, the ODP editors have no control of what is in there and when it is updated.

 

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llweb

• Sep 24, 2003

• #7

Thanks for your reply and the information. I thought dmoz and google were the same, obviously I was wrong.

So, is it possible to change/update my URL title? from last, first name to LL WebDesignS.net, with the description: Web Designer - Freelancer, Providing Web Design creations, enhancements, re-designs, updates, web hosting and domain names

Thank you,
Laura

 

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uzs980

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• Sep 24, 2003

• #8

Google takes our data from time to time, but is not under our control when they do.

As to your questions about a change of title and description, you may of course submit an update request. Use the "Update URL" link on the top right of the category page.

But see the Submission Guidelines: Sites in this area should be titled using the name of the freelancer, followed by the title the site: "Last Name, First Name - Title".

And according to our Editing Style Guidelines, good descriptions ... do not repeat the title of the site or sections of the category path name.

Yours,
Robert

 

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llweb

• Sep 24, 2003

• #9

Thanks for your reply. I already submitted an update through the URL update. That was when I removed from google. Should I just re-submit or re-update?

By the way is there anyone at google that I can email to find out why I was removed instead of updated? Perhaps I was removed because I didn't follow the guidelines of the last, first name.

Thanks,
Laura

 

bobrat

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• Sep 24, 2003

• #10

No idea how to contact Google and this question really should be asked in an SEO forum, not here, but nevertheless - to show it's a Google weird behaviour - go to http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/Freelance/

Note that this is all the freelancers - not just the letter L, now enter Laura Lewis into the search box and hit enter, it comes back and tells you that you are in Freelance/L, even though it does not display your site.

 

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llweb

• Sep 25, 2003

• #11

This is why I originally wrote to you and You hit it right right on the head. I come up when I search but I don't show on the page. Any suggestions on what I can do? I'd appreciate any assistance.
Thanks,
Laura

 

windharp

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• Sep 25, 2003

• #12

Sorry to say, but you have to ask Google. It is definitely not an ODP issue - as you can see in their search results they got the entry with the RDF they downloaded. We have no influence on what they do with it. Seems they updatesd the search server and not the public one.

(I am waiting for the people running around screaming that Google will die because their data is not current. *g*)

 

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hutcheson

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• Sep 25, 2003

• #13

windharp, you're just not reading the right forums.

The "death of Google" is predicted regularly in webmasterworld.com , for a number of reasons that mostly boil down to "I can't get my site listed high enough because of that expletive-deleted pagerank garbage, no matter how many doorway domains I set up."

I take it as an admission that we're still alive. Nobody is predicting the imminent demise of Mother Teresa.