meta description

different to dmoz

[mack]

When my site was listed in the ODP a while back they re-wrote my description. from an SEO point of view should I alter my meta description tag so that it is the same as the dmoz descriptiopn, or does this not realy matter. I would imagine that each SE will handle my tags in it,s own right but would it be of any denefit to have then the same as my ODP listing?

Thanks.

[keyplyr]

ODP changed my description, as did Looksmart and Yahoo. These indexes don't care about META tags. For the actual search engines that do care, I have a nice, KW packed description that works well for me.

I think we're all in the same boat about taking our chances with descriptions at directories. Personally, I can see no advantage is ammending your META description to match ODPs version, unless it is an improvement :-)

[mack]

Yea I tend to agree with you there. The biggest problem is that what works well on ODP may not work well on Google,Ink or AV. Each has it's own algo. I find that my description on ODP does well there but I dont think it would do well on AV and I know Google used body text so ther isn't much poing in altering meta content. I was just wondering of Google would look favouraly on a site in it's ODP extract that had the same description in both it's meta tags and it's Google directory listing???

[hbird64]

The descriptions in the directories need to be different from other directories (copyright), and 99% of the metatag description are worthless for directories. We like to tell the visitors what a site offers and not what a company does.

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