Sunday, April 22, 2007

NOODP - meta tag

update: It worked! Google now displays our meta description not our DMOZ description (May 3 2007)

Google results show our DMOZ description
Tubal Ligation Reversal by Dr. BergerInformation on outpatient tubal ligation reversal with quick recovery, low cost, and high success.
www.tubal-reversal.net/ - 12k - 20 Apr 2007
We wish it to display our meta description instead,
meta name="Description" content="Complete and accurate information about tubal ligation reversal from the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience."/
I'm introducing the meta tag NOODP - No Open Directory Project now.

"Google's creation of sites' titles and descriptions (or "snippets") is completely automated and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to it that appear on the web. While we're unable to manually change titles or snippets for individual sites, please be assured that we're always working to make them as relevant as possible.

One source we use to generate snippets is the Open Directory Project. You can direct us not to use this as a source by adding a meta tag to your pages.

To prevent all search engines (that support the meta tag) from using this information for the page's description, use the following:
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP"

To specifically prevent Google from using this information for a page's description, use the following:
META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP"

If you use the robots meta tag for other directives, you can combine those. For instance:
META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP, NOFOLLOW"

source:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264

I changed:
http://www.tubal-reversal.net/
from
meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/
to
meta name="robots" content="NOODP, index, follow"/

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