You finally get into DMOZ and....

So you finally get into DMOZ and you're deflated because they butchered your title and description. Now you need to worry about lazy search engines such as MSN using that crippled data. Real simple. Just add this to your headerinclude template.

Code:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP">

Then MSN and any others that recognize the NOODP tag will not use the crappy ODP titles and descriptions that seem to have nothing to do with your site.

If anyone else has some advice feel free to post it here.

Loco · 02-21-2007, 07:50 PM

Interesting

there is a form on the page your listed on that will allow you to edit the listing.. Have you thought about trying that ?

Code Monkey · 02-21-2007, 08:03 PM

Why would the editor change your title and description from one that he chose as best?

The point is, you spend all this time Search Engine Optimization'ing your site. Using vBSEO or another to give yourself custom titles and descriptions on every page and then what does MSN do? Throw it all way. So it's best to not let them do that.

sjim · 02-23-2007, 11:53 PM

Forgive the dumb questions.
What is NOODP?

Im assuming this will work with the head tags on the
index page of the main site as well.

Code Monkey · 02-24-2007, 12:10 AM

head tags? no it is a meta tag. It tells search engines, namely MSN, not to use DMOZ (ODP) titles and descriptions for your pages. No ODP

sjim · 02-24-2007, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

head tags? no it is a meta tag. It tells search engines, namely MSN, not to use DMOZ (ODP) titles and descriptions for your pages. No ODP

Thanks CM. I'm on the same page.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title></TITLE>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT= >
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=>
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 day"><meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP"></head>