Robert_Charlton - 7:44 am on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

What do you think is the right approach a different tag or should the NOODP tag apply to both YDIR and ODP?

Tim - I'd thought when I first saw the NOODP tag that what we actually needed was a NODIR tag. Since you're raising the question of choice here, perhaps we need a NODIR tag with content attribute values that would then let us opt out of specific directories... NOYAHOO or NYD, NOODP, or perhaps ALL. It could even be NOYAHOO! if the exclamation mark is allowed in meta tag syntax. ;)

Might be too late for this now, but if you can see a way of making this work, I think it would be ideal.

In the long run, this sort of thing is where I feel the engines should be talking to each other (as I know you do) and trying to agree on standards before making announcements.