I have an SEO company, website www.infatex.com 2 days ago, i placed a <meta name="Robots" Content="NOODP"> in metas, to prevent google to place my DMOZ title. Personally i didn't need to do that, becuase my site always showed up with my custom Title. Actually, when i typed "infatex" in google, my site showed up with my custom "search engine optimization | internet marketing services" But now it shows as "Infatex" same as ODP. It happened right after placing this tag. Google never showed my site as Infatex before! I think i am going to take out this tag and tell you what will happen <meta name="Robots" Content="NOODP">
I would give it a couple of day's My bet is when your pages get indexed the next time the title will show your custom title.
Put NOODP back in. It's a coincidence. Taking it out may well mean that you are stuck with that crappy DMOZ title until you go back to NOODP - give it a few weeks or so to reeindex.
Actually i just checked one of my client's site and it has the same problem. When i added <meta name="Robots" Content="NOODP"> GOOGLE began using DMOZ TITLE I am taking out <meta name="Robots" Content="NOODP"> from all of my sites!
Here is a prove http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=info:www.infatex.com http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=infatex
Here is another example: http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=wauwinet.com http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=www.wauwinet.com Here is again: http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=whiteelephanthotel.com http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=www.whiteelephanthotel.com As you can see BOTH TITLEs and DESCRIPTIONs are IDENTICAL (same on google and dmoz) I had that tag recently installed, and i saw that change in SERPS. Before i had custom TITLE tags indexed. Personally, i am taking this tag out from all of my sites!
because you didn't wait long enough for bot to crawl your website. I don't see the latest cache for wauwinet.com so that google still use your dmoz title. look at mine which change already http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=krpmag.com&btnG=Search here is dmoz http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=krpmag.com the rule is just be patient, but now I can't wait when I can get back in SERP
tonyinabox is correct. There is a lag when it comes to search engines, spidering, and caching. You can't change something today, look tomorrow, and conclude that what you changed today was the cause. There is no way that Google is using NOODP as "YESODP". That is just too dumb to be given serious consideration.