Yahoo!: ‘NOYDIR’ Meta Tags and Rankings Update

Jim Messenger — 03/1/07

via Yahoo! Search Blog

We’re adding support for the Meta tag called ‘NOYDIR’. While we continue to pull from various sources to provide the best title and abstract for a given page in search results, we realize that webmasters may still want the ability to exclude titles and abstracts from the Yahoo! Directory. So, as promised, we’re providing support for ‘NOYDIR’ which will recognize the following Meta tags on your pages:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOYDIR">

or

<META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOYDIR">

For pages with this tag, we will not use Yahoo! Directory titles or abstracts for your URL in web search results.

We are re-indexing content on the web to launch this change, and you should immediately begin to see the changes on Yahoo! US, Yahoo! Japan and Yahoo! Korea. (Other regions will roll-out in the future.) This will be accompanied by the usual ranking changes and page shuffling that is typical of weather updates.

Filed in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Webmaster Tools with 4 comments

4 Comments For This Post.

  1. Ken Smith Said:

    All I can say is it’s about time.

    March 2nd, 2007 at 9:47 am
  2. naplesrealestate Said:

    Do you have to add the tags to all pages or only the homepage?

    March 6th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
  3. Jim Messenger Said:

    naplesrealestate Said:

    Do you have to add the tags to all pages or only the homepage?

    You will need to place the meta tag on any page that you have a Yahoo! directory listing for that you don’t want Yahoo! to use for the description.

    March 6th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
  4. Gary O'Connell Said:

    It’s crazy that we used to do everything we could to attract these kinds of things and now we have to come up with coding to keep them away! :P

    March 27th, 2007 at 10:41 am

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