The NOODP Tag
How many times have you cursed the major search engines because they show your site’s listing with its DMOZ title and description? Most of these DMOZ listings are years old and more often than not don’t describe your site the way you want it. This generally leads to your site losing out on quite a lot of clicks.
To counter this issue Google & MSN introduced a tag -
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”
Having this tag in the HEAD section of your page meant that the search engines will not use the DMOZ titles and description when displaying your site in their search results.
Now Yahoo has announced that they will start using this tag. Having
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP” or META NAME=”Slurp” CONTENT=”NOODP” in the HEAD section will now ensure that the DMOZ attributes are not displayed in the yahoo results.
Personally, I would like yahoo to introduce a similar tag that would inform Yahoo not to display the Yahoo Directory Description for the site’s listing. I guess we’ll need to wait before that becomes a reality…
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