Changing my description

Site long listed in Yahoo with no description can it be changed?

[satanclaus]

I have a site listed in the business category for about 3 years now. Problem is that it has no description so the traffic is about 1/10 of its potential. Could you please tell me of your experiences in trying to get Yahoo to edit the listing and give you a proper description? Thanks very much.

[JamesR]

They will probably treat you the same as everyone else....free submit will be all but ignored. Paid submit will get you a concise description probably with little or no keywords. The risk is up to you.

[satanclaus]

Is there a paid submit option for updating a sites who already have a listing? If so could you point out its location to me.

[pmac]

no paid option exists for updating or adding descriptions. I just went through this. I was able to email the editor that originally added my site and requested that the description be changed because Yahoo users were being done a diservice because of an inaccurate description. I got lucky. Other than the [add.yahoo.com...] form that leads to the great abyss known as Yahoo!, this is the only option I am aware of.
Good luck!

[satanclaus]

Ugh. Thanks Pmac. Looks like my options are unfortunately limited in this situation. Well you live and you learn I guess. :)

[Robert Charlton]

>>Is there a paid submit option for updating a sites who already have a listing?<<

It looks like you already understand that Biz Express will not work for updating. They will keep your money and tell you to submit via the regular change form.

[uk_dokey]

Well my site was included a few days ago with a shortened version of my title. I emailed the guy who reviewed my site and he changed it within 1 day..wow. The problem i have now is that the title has been changed in Yahoo.com but still remains the same in the UK and Ireland version. I'm hoping that this is just a matter of them updating? You guys have any ideas?

[catspaw inoz]

How do you find out who edited of your listing?

[catspaw inoz]

perhaps my poor grammar is why noone has replied yet ;)

I have a client with a terrible Yahoo description, I can't believe his original web developer would of submitted it and I suspect the Yahoo editors probably rewrote it. It would of been submitted about 12 months ago. How do you find out who the editor was? Or can you just email them about it anyway?

[Bentler]

I submitted updates to a few Yahoo listings a year ago and they were accepted without a problem after a few weeks. Maybe it was an exception, but I do put a lot of effort into doing descriptions-- spending maybe an hour or two on each. I think of it as carving in stone because it is long-lasting and very beneficial if accepted. I try to accurately describe what can be found on the site but whittle it down to the essential information, no promotional language or extraneous anything-- just plain, honest, pithy string of targeted keywords.

I also think it's helpful to lay out good reasons for requesting an update in a respectful tone that asks not demands, and expresses appreciation for someone taking the effort to make a change. The fact is you're communicating with someone who's probably busy as hell, doesn't profit from making an effort, and could easily click a delete option for any reason at all. At the very least, give no reason to delete.

[2_much]

If the submission was paid for, you should just try to find the acceptance email, that'll show a Bizex number.
If you didn't pay, then it'll be very hard to find out who added the site and wrote the description. You could try emailing any bizex that you have an email address for.

[jatar_k]

I had a customer who had no description for a couple of months and we just kept sending email every couple of days and eventually got a description added. It was a pretty good desc too.

As far as getting mine edited, I'm with Bentler, we spend serious time designing yahoo specific desc's. We have a 95% accept rate, roughly, we sometimes get a disgruntled editor and get nailed but, on the whole, we get what we pay for.

[skipper]

>Could you please tell me of your experiences in trying to get Yahoo to edit the listing and give you a proper description? Thanks very much.

I think a lot depends on the editor(s) responsible for the category you are listed in.

My experience goes back to about a 1 1/2 years ago, so don't know how useful it is now.

I had a site with no description, so I emailed the editor from the page where you would submit a site, and pointed out that a description would benefit Yahoo's users, and help differentiate the various sites listed. I got a nice, brief reply from the editor agreeing with me and accepting my description. That was before Yahoo started charging for listings. So, maybe money talks now.