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Urgent "NOODP" problem - Please help

DdS70

11:58 am on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

I am having a big problem with my website which I was really hoping someone might be able to help with.

I have the following code on my webpage:

However Google appears to be still using the description from DMOZ.

My question is:

1. Does it matter where it is on the page?
2. DMOZ has my domain listed as http://example.com and not http://www.example.com, would this make a difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

jbinbpt

12:04 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

How long has it been on the page and where is it?

Welcome to WebmasterWorld

DdS70

12:18 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

I changed it over a month ago, Google has the new page cached.

I thought I was not meant to post URLs so apologies if this is against the rules, the website is ....[edit]

Thank you for looking.

[edited by: DdS70 at 12:26 pm (utc) on Feb. 17, 2009]

jbinbpt

12:23 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes it is against the rules. Pull it if you can.

I meant where on the page.

DdS70

12:28 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Sorry, I have edited the post.

It's in the <head> after some java script but before the <Title>.

jbinbpt

12:33 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Why after the scripts? Rearrange to see if that helps.

DdS70

12:37 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Do you know if it should be on every page or does it only have to be on index.html

So it would look like:

....
scripts etc
.....
</HEAD>

jbinbpt

12:43 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes,
On every page. It is page specific.

DdS70

12:49 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Just to confirm....If the DMOZ link is pointing to: http://example.com

Then I would need to change index.html

Is that correct?

Thank you for your help.

jbinbpt

12:54 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

In theory it should not matter if www or not. Have you set a preference in Google Webmaster tools?

Your example shows a yahoo tag. Is that working correctly?

DdS70

1:01 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

In Google Webmaster tools I have set:

Display URLs as www.example.co.uk

Yahoo was never not working, I just added that so there wouldn't be the possibility of any problems.

jbinbpt

1:07 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

OK, Both not working. Rearrange and give it awhile.

HTH

DdS70

1:16 pm on Feb 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Thanks for your help