Website title

Hello !

I have two more questions:

1. Is it compulsory to have the website title unique in the category?
2. Is it a must that the website title declared in the subscription form to correspond to the website title written in the html code ?

Thank you,

Petre

Hi Petre

1. Is it compulsory to have the website title unique in the category?

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No, more than 1 website may have the same title

2. It is a must the website title declared in the subscription form to correspond to the website title written in the html code ?

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No but the editor will look at the site and decide the best title to use in DMOZ.

regards

To add to these answers. The guidelines for titles in DMOZ can be found at http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html#titles

And to add something else, the HTML <title> tag is sometimes used/abused by site owners for SEO purposes, or contain a tag-line, or something like "Homepage of". Therefore its contents are often not the name/title of the business/site, which is what we will use for the title of the listing in our directory.

It doesn't matter what the <title> tag says as far as we're concerned, but it would save the editors some time if those suggesting sites could do their best to put the correct title in the box in the site suggestion form. (But don't worry too much if you haven't done so; it won't cause the suggestion to be rejected. It will waste some of a volunteer editors time in fixing it though, and lead to slightly longer delays for everyone else.)

If you need to make your listing effective than you should need to have unique title. Google will considered it excellent if u have a unique title and descriptions

If you need to make your listing effective than you should need to have unique title. Google will considered it excellent if u have a unique title and descriptions

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At the ODP, that doesn't ever matter at all.

Which is fortunate for surfers.

miccharlys said:

Google will considered it excellent if u have a unique title and descriptions

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That may be, but have you tried coming up with 300 unique titles and descriptions for 300 different Web sites ... all selling, for example, original watercolor paintings? ... while keeping the descriptions to something around 25-30 words. Google aside ... there's "unique" and then there's "utilitarian".

And as mentioned already, ODP cares not at all what Google decides.