Yahoo! search blog has announced that they are supporting Meta tag called ‘NOYDIR’ which will be a complement of ‘NOODP’ Meta tag.

Yahoo search gets information about a site both from Yahoo crawler based search results and also from Yahoo directory. Yahoo crawler based is crawled by the bots but the Yahoo directory is a human compiled one. So if there is a repetition of title or abstract that is both from crawler and Yahoo directory, Yahoo always takes the information from the human compiled one rather than the abstract or title by bots. Sometimes the abstract or title may be outdated in Yahoo directory. So if a site owner is not interested in abstract taken from Yahoo directory, the owner can use the Meta Tags for the submission.

Meta Tag : META NAME = “ROBOTS” CONTENT =”NOYDIR” or

META NAME = “Slurp” CONTENT =”NOYDIR”

Using this Meta Tag the abstract information will be taken from the bots and this announcement will make Yahoo! search more efficient.

Mark

SEO Tags : Yahoo Search, Yahoo Directory, NOYDIR Meta Tag

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