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The request was for a page already in the ODP, is this just an editor performing a routine check of their category or is it something more sinister ?
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They have now changed my description, as well as some of the others in the category. The description was bad enough before, but it is worse now. I mean who ever uses the word "progeny" in a search :) .
The editor also appears to have taken some of the links from my directory and added them to the category. I don't know whether to laugh or cry !
Does anyone have a recent RDF dump of the DMOZ data (I only need to look at one cat) so that I confirm that the links in question have been freshly added. I reckon this would support my case for a deep link if it were true.
When writing a description, as an editor, I am focused on using words that accurately describe the site in as few words as possible. I am not concerned with including the keywords that will allow your site to come up high in searches.
Point well taken and understood yet ODP is a search tool. You can accurately describe a site while being so general that anyone actually looking for that great site will never find it and the purpose for even being in the directory has vanished. I think each editor needs to be up to par on the industry specific keywords of his/her category and incorporate them where appropriate. Otherwise, you start becoming like Yahoo which is very, very limited as a search resource. Lots of great sites listed but becoming harder and harder to find.
Angiolo
kfander, don't misunderstand me, I am not losing any sleep over my description. It's just not worth it. However, nearly every other description in this category has the word "puppy" or "puppies" and what does mine have ......
"progeny" !
I do agree with JamesR though. I feel that sometimes ODP editors go out of their way to avoid using the obvious keywords to describe a site. It is almost as if they don't want some of the sites to be found.
While link popularity and AOL are still the major advantages of an ODP listing, Netscape, and all the other small partners around the globe which use ODP, will search by description as well as category.
Slightly smaller fry but it all helps.
Agree with you there vis.
If you have 100 sites in your category then they will all be returned for a search which uses the "category keywords". In order to rank well then you invariably need to have one or more of the keywords repeated in your description and/or an additional keyword in your description that is not used in many of the other sites' descriptions.
Not so. If you find your way to the category you're interested in, everything in the category is supposed to be relevant to that category. This will be true with or without a high placement in a search.
It is still about content.
The question is not whether it has a minimal effect but whether it is significant. There are hundreds of sites which use the ODP data around the globe and will use keyword searches to produce results from the category and the description. Netscape is one of the major ones but there are enough smaller sites which give a significant amount of referrals.
Regardless, each of these small sites also gives a link-pop boost and here there is surely an argument that the surrounding description i.e. the context of the anchor text will be considered for topic relevance.
I had the following referer in my logs yesterday:
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This is the second time. Last time, I add my URL to the dmoz.org, but I still cannot get listed. Is there anyone please help me?
I want to be listed but is it my web page not good enough to be included?
Best regards
PrimeDNR, Newbie
