A New Meta Tag

[iGuest 3]

Google crawlers sometimes uses ODP to get the description of your webpages. Unfortunately ODPs do not update/refresh contents as frequently as most of us would like it to have.

Now Google has introduced a new META Tag to direct search engine crawlers not to use information available in the ODP.

 

This is the META Tag:

 

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

To specifically direct GoogleBOT, you need to use :

 

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

See : Inside Google Sitemaps

 

Does not it indicate that Google is showing less trust for ODPs ?

 

Regards,

Sid

[Arbitrary 0]

Hmm...but this mostly applies to those of us who actually are listed in the ODP, right? The rest of the people just automatically get their site summary from a different source...I suppose its a good thing that Google is allowing webmasters to chose between using ODPs as their site description or otherwise; at least that means sites can have accurate descriptions.