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Yahoo NOYDIR Tag

Admin - SEO Company — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:00:10 +0000

One of the drawbacks of Yahoo!’s business directory in the past has been that your site’s directory description gets used as your site’s description in the SERPs.

Why is this a problem? Because it can kill your click-through traffic. Those descriptions are assigned by directory editors, and aren’t necessarily written to generate the most click-through traffic in the SERPs. Webmasters would rather have more control over what shows up in those search results and they were getting upset when they paid big money to be listed in Yahoo!’s directory, only to have there description of their Website entry in the search results changed.

To its credit, Yahoo! listened to complaints and announced recently that it’s released a tag to prevent this from happening. Use the NOYDIR tag in your pages, and Yahoo! won’t use your directory description in its search results. Here’s how it works:

With in the tag of your HTML code, put in the following:

meta name=”robots” content=”NOYDIR”

This code will prevent Yahoo! from using your Yahoo directory description in its search engine results.

Google did the same thing earlier when it released its NOODP tag. The DMOZ directory listings were be used in the Google search results in some cases, and the NOODP tag gave webmasters a way to opt out. If you have a listing in DMOZ, you can use this code to prevent your DMOZ description from showing up in your search results.

Put the following with in the tag in the HTML code in your page.

meta name=”robots” content=”noodp”

So if you take these precautions, what shows up in your SERPs should be based on your meta description. Using the new code won’t affect any benefits you get from the Yahoo! directory in terms of ranking weight and link juice.

The Washington Post BlogRoll

Admin - SEO Company — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:07:10 +0000

The Washington Post also known as WPNI has launched its WPNI blogroll blog. WPNI blogroll is a new inclusion of Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive (WPNI). When you join this blogroll, your blog will be given a spot in the washingtonpost.com website, and you will have the opportunity to accept ads from WPNI advertisers.

All the blogroll members will be listed in the WPNI blogroll directory. Isn’t that just great?

So what are you waiting for? Add your blog to WPNI blogroll now.

Skaffe For 2 Dollars

Admin - SEO Company — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:35:46 +0000

Skaffe Is one of the top ten Directories on the Planet – Folks go and get in now! Normally $40!

Google Directory Has Updated

Admin - SEO Company — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:54:40 +0000

Well I havenâ€™t seen this mentioned on any of the SEO forums, I didn’t look hard, but we had an update of the contents and an export of Google Directory PR.

I now see my new Regional link that I added up to DMOZ (it got approved with in 2 weeks) in the Google directory. I have had some people email letting me know the order and PR has changed.

If you have seen any good threads on this drop it in the comments please.

Massive Links Now Offers 4 Extra Deep Links

Admin - SEO Company — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:48:03 +0000

Massive Links Directory joined the multi-link directory club and are now offering a 4 extra deep links in a Bacis Plus package for $19.99. Seems they were already offering this in the Premimum package for $49.95 and I didn’t even know it.