By: Priyank Garg | Source: ysearchblog.com

For those of you lucky enough to make into the DMOZ directory but don’t want their descriptions or titles popping up in Yahoo search results, we have good news. Yahoo Search now supports the NOODP tag, which instructs Yahoo’s algorithm to ignore the ODP (which stands for Open Directory Project, another name for DMOZ) description and title in favor of your own.

If you’d like to avoid the DMOZ description, place the following attribute(s) in your page’s header:

META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”

or

META NAME=”Slurp” CONTENT=”NOODP”

If any of these tags are found on your page, they will not be considered ODP titles or abstracts as candidates for your URL in search results. Content on the web will be reindexed to launch this change. This will be accompanied by the usual ranking changes and page shuffling in the index that are typical of weather updates.

If you have any questions or concerns, please visit the Site Explorer forum or refer to our webmaster resources page.

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