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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Yahoo Finally Offers A Way to Opt Out of Lame Directory Titles

It's about time Yahoo joined the party and adopted a meta tag that allows site owners to tell Yahoo to use the HTML title instead of the Yahoo directory title. The search engines that use the ODP directory implemented a similar tag a while back. Yahoo has been promising a similar option for several months, so it's good to see it actually happen.

The code for the new tag is

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

or

<META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOYDIR">

Read about it on the Yahoo blog

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