ericfwebmaster
msg:3134293 | 1:18 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I have a legacy tag in my companies homepage that says <meta name="robots" content="all"> Would changing it to <meta name="robots" content="NOODP,all"> work? I know that the tag is useless but I hate to change anything unnecessarily when we are owning our industry for our terms.
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ebound
msg:3134299 | 1:23 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Is placing this tag on the home page sufficient or does this tag need to be on all pages?
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webdoctor
msg:3134339 | 1:50 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| I know that the tag is useless |
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| but I hate to change anything |
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Paranoia? :-) If it's useless, why are you worried?
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LunaC
msg:3134370 | 2:11 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I'd be nice if that tag, or another one (NYD or something), would let us get rid of the Yahoo Directory listing's description. If they're doing this, I have a bit more hope they may allow that in the future. *Fingers crossed*
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marketingmagic
msg:3134493 | 3:44 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Dito on the Yahoo directory - getting rid of this would be great as making changes to Yahoo directory is almost as bad as changing ODP listings.
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jtara
msg:3134496 | 3:45 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Since this is on the WebmasterWorld front page, can somebody explain this in English? | If these are found on your pages Yahoo will not consider ODP titles or abstracts as candidates for your URL in search results. |
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OK, I figured out that ODP is "Open Directory Project", or the DMOZ categorized list of websites. Now, what the heck does the rest of that sentence mean?
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ebound
msg:3134511 | 3:54 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| Now, what the heck does the rest of that sentence mean? |
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Yahoo sometimes displays the Title and Description from the listings in ODP in their search results rather than the meta title and description. This option will allow you to say no to that.
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COlarry
msg:3134596 | 5:04 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Will adding this tag affect Google or other robots' results?
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redhat
msg:3135126 | 7:26 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0) |
The following 7 messages were cut out to new thread by martinibuster. New thread at: yahoo_search/3135124.htm [webmasterworld.com]
5:23 pm on Oct. 25, 2006 (utc -8)
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