MSN and Dmoz

[freakmode]

Hi

Our MSN listing are poor for our main keywords. This is mainly due to MSN using our Dmoz description that was written 7 years ago.

I have requested many times for an update but I guess the editor for our section is no longer taking changes/requests.

Any ideas how to get this changed or removed?

Examples

http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=jobananas
http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx...MSNH&mkt=en-gb

[RuralWeb]

This is mainly due to MSN using our Dmoz description that was written 7 years ago.

The DMOZ description has no real effect on your rankings so I doubt that it is the reason for your poor rankings. Getting a DMOZ description changed is almost impossible.

[freakmode]

The DMOZ description has no real effect on your rankings so I doubt that it is the reason for your poor rankings. Getting a DMOZ description changed is almost impossible.

Could do with getting our main keyword in there somehow.

[RuralWeb]

Could do with getting our main keyword in there somehow

It still will not improve your rankings.

[freakmode]

Going to give this a try.

<meta name="msnbot" content="noodp">

All of our internal pages rank well - just the index page thats screwed.

[pinbrook]

Interesting

As a result of this i found this

http://searchengineland.com/070228-140603.php

It could be useful to block SEs from picking up old descriptions - not necessarily to improve SEO, but to show the real page description for searchers.