Is there a way to change my site's description on MSN's directory? What about getting real help on Yahoo?

Question

I've changed the content on my website drastically over the past four years since I acquired it, but it still has the same description on MSN as before even though the description has been changed on Google and Yahoo. I thought MSN's listings used the same descriptions as Yahoo, like MSN was using Yahoo's content for their searches, but I'm not so sure about that now. And I can't find any links on the MSN home page on how to change site descriptions in their directory.


And speaking of my listing on Yahoo, I've been trying for the past two months to get them to change a typo they made when posting the new description they drastically rewrote from what I e-mailed them, and their customer service people seem to be non-existent. I got one e-mail from a real person more than a month ago, but it wasn't much more than a form-letter reply, and now I can't get any response at all. And I'm not happy that they changed the description I wrote AND made a typo that is still there. Any suggestions?

Sathya, I've e-mailed Yahoo at least two, maybe three times and they've never replied. Google hasn't been a problem at all because it's pretty much automated. But it's been a major headache trying to figure out how to get Yahoo to respond at all, much less to correct a mistake they made.

Bkzalley, I've done all of that. Do a search on both Yahoo and Google for Jesusfreak.com and you'll see the difference. Google is reading my HTML and meta content exactly as I have it coded. But Yahoo's service isn't at all automated, and in fact depends on someone doing it (and in this case, doing it wrong) when they get around to it.

Answer 1

Have you changed your HTML description on your site? I am not sure about if you are using 'their' editor, but if you have created a site and are able to use an HTML editor, you need to change your description there.
It would look like:


Then resubmit your site to Google, etc. and it should change it when there spider gets it again.
It could take a week or more to have it read your new code, but then it should be there.

Addition to answer:
The problem might be that you have it still wrong in the HTML.
You have it:

It should be:


Another thing...are you paying for this inclusion? You may just have to resubmitted to them. Like start over to get it right. Or Call them directly...Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
[phone]

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-07.html

Answer 2

Wow you won a lottery you didn't enter and has never been advertised and all they want is information they can use to gain access to things like your bank account. Can you see all these huge companies that would advertise a sneeze if they could not advertise a lottery? It's an obvious scam to get your details and until so many gullible people stop falling for it it will continue

Answer 3

u please re-submit the site to yahoo and google again. it will definitely get changed to new description.