Meta Noodp

[Jim Messenger]

Google now recognizes a new META.

META NOODP tells Google to use a snippet from your page instead of the title & description in DMOZ.

Here is the correct way to use it:

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

-Jim

Jim, have you or anyone else tried this and verified that it works? If so, how long did it take Google to make the change in the live SERPS?

[Jim Messenger]

I have not tried it yet. Even though my sites are listed in DMOZ, none of them are showing in Google with the ODP title & description.

Matt says that when he added the NO ODP tag it took three days for the title & description to change.

So, the apparent answer is that it does work.

-Jim

Interesting..........the only place I see my ODP Title and Description is on the allinanchor results that are returned........

[Jim Messenger]

I see my ODP title most often when searching for my name. I added the NOODP tag this morning. Let's see how long the change takes.

[kensmith]

MSN actually lead the way on this one. I blogged about MSN allowing webmasters to remove ODP info back in June, and then Google started in July. Thought it was funny that Google was behind MSN on this one.

[Jim Messenger]

NOODP update: I added the NOODP tag on 8/19/06 to one of my sites and as of the 8/27/06 cache date Google still had not stopped using the DMOZ tiltle and description for some search queries. As a test i thought I would re-insert the tag using caps instead of lower case for NOODP.

We shall see...

[Jim Messenger]

Confirmed! As of 9/4/04 Cache the ODP title & description is gone.

It appears from this test that the tag is case sensitive.

Jim

[kensmith]

Good to know.