Yahoo SERP Title and Description.

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  1. #1
    Hi all,

    Yahoo Search Engine Reasult Pages displays Title and Description which are retrieved from their Yahoo! directory. NOT from site. Which is Very old and gives no click conversion. Site is listed in directory for free. Is there anyway to work around this problem. :eek:
     
    Kirtan, Nov 27, 2006 IP
  2. rubeina

    rubeina Invisible Staff Affiliate Manager

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    Search Engine Result Pages
     
    rubeina, Nov 27, 2006 IP
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  3. Cryogenius

    Cryogenius Peon

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    You could try adding <meta name="robots" content="NOODP">, but this was originally to supress the description from dmoz.org. Yahoo! do have some algorithms to decide which title/description to use, and NOODP might work for you (but probably not).

    Other than that, the only solution is to get Yahoo! to update your link in their directory. There's a form to do it somewhere...

    Cryo.
     
    Cryogenius, Nov 28, 2006 IP
  4. Kirtan

    Kirtan Peon

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    what is the risk in resubmitting site? it is commercial site. will yahoo again list the site for free?
     
    Kirtan, Nov 29, 2006 IP
  5. Web Gazelle

    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    They do honor the "noodp" tag but I don't think that will remove the directory title and description from the SERPS
     
    Web Gazelle, Nov 29, 2006 IP
  6. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    I've been trying for years to get one changed and still no luck....even after I stopped paying the directory fee and my site got delisted from the directory
     
    oseymour, Dec 3, 2006 IP
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    vid Peon

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    Once it was with me too, but after some time I've remove it from directory and put it there again...
     
    vid, Dec 3, 2006 IP
  8. gio

    gio Well-Known Member

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    How about contacting yahoo!?
     
    gio, Dec 3, 2006 IP
  9. mad4

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    Yahoo are working on allowing webmasters to opt out of having the title pulled from the directory.
     
    mad4, Dec 3, 2006 IP