NOODP meta tag

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Just a quick note, with some info...

This spring MSN started a "NOODP meta tag"...
The meta tag is used to provided Webmasters with an option to override the default description (description from the DMOZ directory).

The NOODP meta tag is good news... Lots of webmaster were not submitting to DMOZ fearing that Google would pull the DMOZ description.

You use the meta tag
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
It's my understanding that Google will support the NOODP meta tag also...

The snippet will be pulled from what's on the webpage instead. MSN doesn't really say though.
I've heard good results and I've heard bad results...

You can read about it here
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/05/22/603917.aspx
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/05/27/stop-msn-from-displaying-your-dmoz-descriptions/

Hope this helps...
Mary Lou
 
A few days ago, Yahoo announced support for a new meta tag called "NOYDIR". The new tag will complement the "NOODP" meta tag that is already supported by all major search engines.

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000418.html



Just add the following code to the <HEAD> section of your web pages:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOYDIR">

Yahoo might still use the Open Directory Description so it is better to include both tags on your pages if you don't like your directory descriptions:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP, NOYDIR ">

You should optimize some of your web pages for Yahoo's search engine algorithm. Although Google delivers the majority of web traffic, it is not a good idea to rely on a single source of traffic.

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