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The OpenDirectory project may not need to be introduced. For those who don't know however it is one of the long time resources on the Internet, a human edited thematic collection of resources, and the base data of the Google directory itself. Web sites featured in DMOZ are usually included in the Google counterpart with the next information refresh, and thus be searchable directly on Google when doing a query in the Directory section. Results from these pages will show the directory information on their listings in the regular web search results as well. Known issues DMOZ uses descriptions of the editors who accept the web sites into the directory. Although the submitted wording may be taken into consideration, it is up to the administrators of the OpenDirectory project to rephrase the description. Once accepted into DMOZ, the data will sooner or later migrate to the Google directory, and at this point the regular searches will show the description for the web site that the DMOZ editors finalized, regardless of whether the query was made on the regular web search or the directory index. DMOZ descriptions overrule the META description of a page, and appear as the snippet for the result. + Resolution: Should you feel discontent
with the description, and/or worried about the same snippets throughout
all results for your web pages, a single META HTML tag on every page will
overrule the DMOZ description, and from the next time your pages are crawled,
will show the lines from the META description tags unique to that page.
The proper syntax of the NOODP tag may have different variations, in general,
an HTML tag placed in the HEAD section of the pages will be recognized
by both Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp. <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
is a directive for all web crawling bots, while <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT"
CONTENT="NOODP"> is a directive for Googlebot only.
Resources How do I change my site's title and description? ( Google Webmaster Help Center ) http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264 |
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