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What is the use of the following Meta Tag?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by sisatel, Aug 21, 2011.

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    Somebody id using the following meta tag -
    meta name="robots" content="noodp, noydir"What is the use of the tag? Is is mandatory?

    What are NOODP & NODIR
     
    sisatel, Aug 21, 2011 IP
  2. webexpert00

    webexpert00 Peon

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    hi,

    This tag is used when you don't want search engine crawlers to crawl your website's information present on yahoo directory and on open directory project(DMOZ). This tag is basically used when you make some important changes on your website and which is not contained by these directories about your website. So, you don't want to show old information in search results for your site.

    And yes, it's not mandatory at all!!!

    Thanks
     
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  3. sisatel

    sisatel Active Member

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    Hello, thanks for your solution.
     
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    This tag is not mandatory.
     
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    noodp: This directive is only supported by Google, Yahoo and Bing and prevents the alternative description from the ODP/DMOZ from being displayed in the search results.

    noydir: This directive is only supported by Yahoo and prevents the alternative description from the Yahoo Directory from being displayed in the search results.
     
    C.Rebecca, Aug 22, 2011 IP