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10.25.06
Yahoo Now Supports NOODP Tag
 By
Chris Richardson
For those of you lucky enough to make into the DMOZ
directory but don’t want their descriptions or titles popping
up in Yahoo search results, we have good news. According to
their blog,
Yahoo Search now supports the NOODP tag, which instructs Yahoo’s
algorithm to ignore
the ODP (which stands for Open Directory Project, another name
for DMOZ) description and title in favor of your own.
If you’d like to avoid the DMOZ description, place the following attribute(s) in your page’s header:
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”
or
META NAME=”Slurp” CONTENT=”NOODP”
If you are unsure of what I’m talking about, I’ll explain a little further. When sites appear in search results, they show up with a description and title. For instance, this is WebProNews’ description in Yahoo:
WebProNews - Breaking eBusiness News
Breaking eBusiness news. Your source for investigative ebusiness reporting and breaking news.
...which is taken from our meta description. If Yahoo was using the DMOZ description, WPN’s would read differently.
If you are happy with the way ODP describes your site, then including the NOODP attribute is unnecessary. But, if you’ve spent a great deal of time crafting your site’s description and don’t want to run the risk of another one being used, then by all means, implement NOODP.
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About the Author:
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest search news. |
