Reviewers Typo Causing Major Problems. HELP!

[keylime]

I'm hoping someone can help me through this forum, if I am out of place posting here, I apologize, but I have written a few emails (hard to tell really, where to send them) none of which have produced any results.

 

First of all, I must commend this project and all who are involved. A huge undertaking and I can see that the intention is in the right place. But as with many things, once human intervention is involved, there can be problems. That which is DMOZ's strength is also its weakness. I bid you all well in your efforts.

 

Specifically, I own and maintain Steve's Authentic, my commercial site where I am selling my key lime pies. Although I know I could get more traffic and better placement by using my other site keylime.com, I have made a very conscious decision to keep them apart. Keylime.com is about the fruit itself, and I am not throwing pies in anyone's face.

 

The problem is with the review of Steve's Authentic, as the reviewer misspelled LIME and instead spelled LINE! The result is that other SEs who rely on DMOZ's listing and summary have picked up and are using the typo, resulting in an inaccurate SE result. Of course, I do very well when someone searches key line pie instead of key lime pie.

 

To be honest, I have tried to research SEO rules and tips as much as I can as a novice and do-it-yourselfer. All I'm asking for is a fair shake and to be on equal ground with my competitors. Can someone facilitate a correction (re-review and re-submission) of my site.

 

My thanks in advance.

[lmocr]

Go to the category where the site is listed and select "update listing" - make the typo change in the description box and "correct spelling" in the reason box. Then, anyone who has the ability to edit in that category will see the request.

[keylime]

Very Problematic...

 

So I make my corrections and request a re-review. In the meantime, I still suffer from the incorrect categorizing of my site and from the typo. What are the priorities here? Do I recruit someone to become an "editor" who can correct this problem or do I continue to have some degree of faith and trust in this project that things will be attended to because those involved know what the impact of an incorrect listing or typo can have on someone trying to feed a family and sustain a livelihood? Someone give me a suggestion.

[shadow575]

So I make my corrections and request a re-review. In the meantime, I still suffer from the incorrect categorizing of my site and from the typo. What are the priorities here?

Certainly not site promotion. The directory's priorities are not/never have been with site promotion of any kind. If there were typos or an error, we will definately want them fixed. And if you requested an update it will be fixed.

 

Do I recruit someone to become an "editor" who can correct this problem or do I continue to have some degree of faith and trust in this project that things will be attended to because those involved know what the impact of an incorrect listing or typo can have on someone trying to feed a family and sustain a livelihood?

While we always encourage interested individuals to become editors, recruiting someone to be an editor for self-interested reasons won't fly. Site tending would be a violation of an editors Conflict of Interest, and anything that editor did outside the guidelines can and would be fixed by other editors.

 

The update will be taken care of (updates of this nature usually take priority with most editors, but the changes take some time to migrate to the public-side servers ) and any typos will be corrected.

 

In regards to the wrong category you mention, you site *may* qualify for a second listing by topic if that is what you are referring too. In such a case suggesting it once to the best topical category for review would be acceptable.

 

Hope that helps.

[motsa]

I still suffer from the incorrect categorizing of my site and from the typo.

Nowhere in your original post do you mention miscategorization.

[bobrat]

what the impact of an incorrect listing or typo can have on someone trying to feed a family and sustain a livelihood?

You can't be serious.

 

You rank #1 in Google for both key line pies and key lime pies. Since a certain percentage of people searching will mispell, the "mistake" in DMOZ actually benefits you.

 

In fact it's surprising how many sites - spell it key line pies - maybe they do in on purpose.

[ishtar]

Someone already fixed the typographical error. If you wish to submit to another category, I'd suggest starting with http://dmoz.org/Shopping/ and working your way down.