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Display a description for xml pages in Yahoo

Any tricks to force this?

         

financialhost

5:39 pm on Jan 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Consider this a challenge to all the SEO's & coding guru's...

If you goto Yahoo & search for (guide ispermalink="false") you will see a lot of RSS XML webpages in the index. Your also notice how the description is really messed up for all of these.

I would like to find a workaround to fix this but i am not sure it is possible. The workaround should enable a clean description without disturbing any feeds produced by the xml.

My only theory so far is perhaps the following might work at the start of the xml?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<!--

Welcome to widgets central.. your place for widgets in blue & green...
-->
<channel>...

Will this work?
Anyone have any ideas for a solution?

randymorin

5:45 am on Jan 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Why not use the channel description?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<description>Welcome to widgets central.. your place for widgets in blue & green... </description>

financialhost

9:49 am on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Yahoo won't specifically pick up on the channel description in search engine results for the xml.page ...

Atleast not at this time...

I was hoping on a technique that could somehow place the normal html meta tag for Yahoo in the xml code without disturbing aggregators, but i guess this is impossible.