Search Engine Optimization Discussion Forum     General SEO discussion     Building Link Popularity         Social Media         Feeds     Website Meta Tags         Titles         Descriptions         Keywords     Image Alt Tags     Content Optimization     SEO News, Articles, and Feeds     General Website Development         HTML         Flash         PHP         Javascript     eCommerce Optimization         Feeds         Shopping Networks     Buy, Sell or Trade Web Services         Programming         SEO         Graphic Design Search Engine Specific Search Optimization     SEO for Yahoo     SEO for Google     SEO for MSN     SEO for other Search Engines    »User: »Password:   Remember Me?  SEO-Board Forums / Search Engine Optimization Discussion Forum / Website Meta Tags / Fixed new issue with meta description tag Pages: 1 Posted:  22 Mar 2007 01:56 Administrator Currently Offline Posts:  32 Join Date: Mar 2007 We ran into an interesting problem today with one of our clients. We added new meta description and title tags to the site, but Google would not recognize these new tags. After some research I found that Google was using the description and title from the Open Source Directory dmoz.org listing. I'm not a fan of dmoz, but it's an evil we must deal with. I found that you can override this by using a meta NOODP tag. This tag requests that Google and/or MSN ignore the ODP title and description and use the Meta's that you specify. Although I've been doing search engine optimization for over eight years now I seem to learn something new about SEO everyday. __________________ Indianapolis, Indiana Search Engine Optimization & Website Development by Slingshot SEO Posted:  23 Mar 2007 19:37 Administrator Currently Offline Posts:  32 Join Date: Mar 2007 There is a much slower alternative fix to this meta issue. We also submitted a change order or update to dmoz.org for the newer version of our meta tag and meta description. I still feel that the NOODP tag is the better fix, because the Open Source Directory places many restrictions on options for title and description tags and the still have the ability to edit them as they see fit. __________________ Indianapolis, Indiana Search Engine Optimization & Website Development by Slingshot SEO Posted:  15 Sep 2007 08:18 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  26 Join Date: Sep 2007 NOODP, seems new to me too, could you please post a working sample here to explain the use of NOODP tag briefly? Pages: 1

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