Listing unchanged in over a year http://www.1north.co.uk

[1northcouk]

Tonight I have posted on the open directory requesting a change of our description and business activity. Our site http://www.1north.co.uk has had the same description on it for a long time. In fact it’s also in the wrong category. Can someone tell me if it is possible to contact the administrator of the office supplies section, if so can you send me contact details. I would really like our listing changed as it really is annoying that our whole company name is not listed and this is how people search for us.

 

Thanks

 

Bill

[giz]

Use the "update" link, top right, in the listed category.

 

Follow the on-screen instructions there. That is the only way.

[lmocr]

Perhaps a gander at the guidelines will help you (bolding mine):

 

The title should identify the site, not describe it. It should be both informative and concise.

 

Good titles ....

 

Do give the official name of the site as the title. Generally, the title will be obvious and prominently displayed on the site.

Do give the official name of the business or entity as the title, if the site is about the business, organization, or other entity (e.g. a company's home page).

Do contain the full form and acronym if the business, organization or other entity is known by both, and both are used on the site.

 

http://dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html#titles

[nea]

(lmocr, I edited the URL in your post so it points to the public server rather than the editor-side one )

[lmocr]

thanks :o

[1northcouk]

I have done this 5 times now over the last year and it still has the original description that was listed, it is this listing I have tried to change to no avail. It would not bother me so much but its the dmoz listing that shows on the search engines and not what the website says.

 

So what I was hoping was to contact the editor as ask him/her to change it for me.

 

The wording is fine as the rules go.

[bobrat]

My personal experience is that I reject over 90% of description change requests.

 

DMOZ descriptions are very boring and to the point, they do not contain marketing wordings. They are not usually what the site owner wants.

 

Does your supplied descrption follow http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/describing.html#descriptions

 

Since update requests are usually handled faster than new site reviews, and you have made five update requests already, it's likely the description will not be changed.

 

So what I was hoping was to contact the edito

Since there are many editors who may have looked at your requests, and that can handle the category, there is no way to know which one.

[hutcheson]

If the wording is fine as the ODP rules go, then that is the end of the matter.

 

Talking to editors, lobbying, spamming the "update URL" link -- none of them ought to have any effect, and we do a pretty good job of making sure none of them do have an effect.