38 replies to this topic

[St0n3y]

I cached now, no change in the google listings. I'm going to change it back to a single line to see if anything happens.

[qwerty]

Yes. Shame on me for not having noticed that before.

It was only published yesterday at 4PM Pacific. Consider yourself cleansed of shame

[WebGeek182]

No need to tell the engines to index. They do that as the default.

Thanks Jill. You are absolutely correct. We still put it in on each page because that field is fed from a database, and some pages are set to NOINDEX. It's more of a standardization than anything.

[torka]

Just as a follow up. I finally thought to check on this today, and noticed that Yahoo has at some point over the past week or so stopped using the Yahoo Directory description for my company's site. Google has not been using the DMOZ description for awhile now thanks to the NOODP directive, and they are still not using the DMOZ description.

FTR, the code I'm using is

CODE

<meta name="robots" content="noodp, noydir">

So the combined method seems to work pretty well.

--Torka

[qwerty]

What are you seeing on MSN, Torka?

In my case, MSN is no longer showing the ODP description and Yahoo is no longer showing the Y directory description, but I just looked at Ask, and I don't really know where they got what they're using. On a search for my company name, the snippet is a piece of my meta description, but the result's title is my company name instead of the home page's title tag.

[torka]

MSN/Live is showing the page's actual <title> tag as the title. The snippet is a combination of our description meta and some text they grabbed from the actual page itself.

I'm seeing a similar thing as you are in Ask. The snippet appears to be coming from the description. The title is actually not our full company name, though, but our one-word brand name. If it were still pulling from DMOZ, it should be the full company name, so I'm not sure where they're coming up with the title.

--Torka

[qwerty]

Very odd.

If I search ask for my own name, my business site comes up first, but like this:

Raise My Rank
Provides website optimizing services.
www.raisemyrank.com/ · Cached · Save

That's both the name and description on my ODP listing, so they don't use the ODP's description on a search for the site's company name, but they do for the owner's name??

<added>I just checked, and Ask's cached copy of the page includes the updated robots meta tag, so apparently they're not complying with noodp.

[torka]

Ask is on drugs, IMO.

My original search had been with our one-word brand name. That's where they just displayed that one-word brand name as the title.

Tried again with our actual company name, and this time it displayed the on-page <title> tag, with a snippet from the description META. In fact, any search I've tried with any combination of terms (terms that display our company's site in the SERPs, that is ) have used the title from the page <title> tag, except the search on our one-word brand.



--Torka

[St0n3y]

Keeping the meta robots all on one line is still working for me as well. MSN shows my page title and a snippet for description. ASK shows my business name as the title and a snippet for description