Noarchive , Nosnippet meta tags

and their effects.

[Melliflu]

Because the description for my site is redundant with the description from ODP, I've used the “Nosnippet tag”, but the description is still showing and I wonder whether this tag is really taken into consideration or not as it’s not clearly mentioned in Google help pages.

Because part of my site is dynamic news, I've also used the “noarchive” tag and this one worked.

When using the most common keywords search, my site PR7 is preceded by 3 sites with PR5 and 6 and fewer referring links. No changes for months.
Could this ranking be due to the aforementioned tags?

[keyplyr]

Sorry, don't know - just giving you a boost to the top to try again.

[Chris_R]

Google has said before they don't penalize your page for using the cache feature, but it may draw their attention for cloaking, tricky stuff, ...

With that in mind - have you figured out the traffic for each? If you want traffic - leave the stuff in there. People are attracted to bigger listings.

Listings with just the title don't give the user much to go on.

Even adding the description - they can't see how they keywords come into play.

This is VERY important for certain keywords - like a persons name - many people - most - don't use quotes - so people want to see the keywords together.

The also want to see it in context.

[Melliflu]

I've heard that the "nosnippet" tag is no longer used by Google.

I have also removed the "noarchive" tag from my index page, because it's after all quite useful when my server is down.

So back to normal. Thank you.