Years ago, I noticed that a mystery description was added to our site in the search results. Since it was pretty accurate at the time, I just let it go. But times have changed and the description is no longer as helpful as it was. The strange thing is, I have no idea to change it. According to the webmaster tools, the description that you have is what it should be--as defined by the description meta tag. Yet, the search results always pull up the mystery description.
Where did you get this wierd entry? There are onlly three valid parameters for the robots line. Anything else is unskilled garbage. It's amazing how many web sites I see with the Robots line flagging the page builder as not having done their homework.
This tells Google not to use the DMOZ description. For some reason Google sometimes uses the DMOZ description for a site's search listing and this tag is basically telling them to ignore that and use the description provided by the site itself.
> Where did you get this wierd entry? There are onlly three valid > parameters for the robots line. Anything else is unskilled garbage. > It's amazing how many web sites I see with the Robots line flagging > the page builder as not having done their homework.
> > <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> > Where did you get this wierd entry? There are onlly three valid > parameters for the robots line. Anything else is unskilled garbage. > It's amazing how many web sites I see with the Robots line flagging > the page builder as not having done their homework.
Giggle.
I agree - not doing your homework can lead to you making a complete fool of yourself in public.
> This tells Google not to use the DMOZ description. For some reason > Google sometimes uses the DMOZ description for a site's search listing > and this tag is basically telling them to ignore that and use the > description provided by the site itself.
> > Where did you get this wierd entry? There are onlly three valid > > parameters for the robots line. Anything else is unskilled garbage. > > It's amazing how many web sites I see with the Robots line flagging > > the page builder as not having done their homework.
> Years ago, I noticed that a mystery description was added to our site > in the search results. Since it was pretty accurate at the time, I > just let it go. But times have changed and the description is no > longer as helpful as it was. The strange thing is, I have no idea to > change it. According to the webmaster tools, the description that you > have is what it should be--as defined by the description meta tag. > Yet, the search results always pull up the mystery description.
> This tells Google not to use the DMOZ description. For some reason > Google sometimes uses the DMOZ description for a site's search listing > and this tag is basically telling them to ignore that and use the > description provided by the site itself.
> > Where did you get this wierd entry? There are onlly three valid > > parameters for the robots line. Anything else is unskilled garbage. > > It's amazing how many web sites I see with the Robots line flagging > > the page builder as not having done their homework.
