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tigger

8:09 am on Apr 10, 2001 (gmt 0)

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I've been submitting sites to yahoo using business express for some time now and on the whole been very happy with the results, I recently submitted a site and although it has been placed in the correct category with a great description the first word of the description is incorrect and not the one we submitted.

Although the word exsists and the sentence makes sense it is not the search term that people will use to find his services, so an appeal was sent in and they have refused to make any changes to the site description, is there anything else I can do ?

JamesR

4:19 pm on Apr 10, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Not quite, they won't budge if it is just a search term thing. The main benefit you will get out of Yahoo is link pop, the category you are in, and click throughs. I know it doesn't sound optimal but I would just live with it and add a click a day.

tigger

4:43 pm on Apr 10, 2001 (gmt 0)

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thanks, but a friend of mine that's got a bit more grey matter between the ears than me has told me that the word doesn't exist & I've just checked in my english dictionary and can't find anything what do you think listing = "refurbishes" the keyword submitted was "refurbishment"

JamesR

4:53 pm on Apr 10, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Well I would take them to town then...at least you have Webster as your advocate.

tigger

5:07 pm on Apr 10, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, well just checked online and the word as I thought doesn't exist, here starts the fun

hutcheson

3:57 pm on Apr 11, 2001 (gmt 0)

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I have the feeling you won't enjoy this fun.

I don't know whether English is your native language, so I don't know whether to explain the concept of inflected verbs, or the convention that dictionaries explicitly indicate the regularity or inflections only for _irregular_ verbs, or the syntactic principle that regular verbs ending with sibilants form the singular present tense form by adding "es".

In short, "refurbishes" _is_ an _English_ word, just like "submitting" or "results" or "placed" or "sites" or "ears" or "checked" or "exists" (but perhaps not "exsists") although none of them are going to appear in your typical dictionary. (And English inflections are generally pretty simple: so we don't have "Analytical Lexicons" listing all the inflected forms.)

"all yuor description are belong to us!"
-- ODP reviewer (but yahoo has the same attitude)

tigger

4:07 pm on Apr 11, 2001 (gmt 0)

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thanks for the lesson, I have since had it pointed out that the word does exist, but my main query is that I wanted the word refurbishment as this is the keyword people would use if looking for this companies services

NFFC

4:13 pm on Apr 11, 2001 (gmt 0)

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>"all yuor description are belong to us!"

*laugh* How long have you been wanting to say that. ;)

tigger, honestly I wouldn't waste any more time on it, as we UKer's say "they have you bang to rights". They really don't care if the description contains your targeted keywords only that it describes the site. Please keep us updated and I hope that things do work out for you on this one.

tigger

4:21 pm on Apr 11, 2001 (gmt 0)

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finale appeal has been sent in, but I've as good as given up hope. The SE win again :( (can't find a frown)