MSN has responded to the pleas of webmasters to stop using the descriptions supplied by DMOZ for a particular website by creating a new tag for MSNbot.
<meta name=”robots” content=”NOODP” />
<meta name=”msnbot” content=”NOODP” />
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* The above examples are written with XHTML sites in mind.
If you feel that your DMOZ description may be adversely affecting your click through rate in MSN, maybe it’s time to update some meta tags across your websites.
Update: Google now also supports the No ODP code.
Is it even worth it to submit to DMOZ? I’ve submitted so many sites and they never get listed.
[ October 14th, 2006 at 6:42 am] [ #Link ]