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February 28, 2007

Yahoo! Adds NOYDIR Support To Exclude Yahoo! Directory Titles in Yahoo! Search Results

Yahoo! has finally added support for SEOs and Webmasters to specify that they do not want their Yahoo! Directory title to be displayed in the Yahoo! Search results. They promised they would do this October 2006 and then promised it for us in January, so just a month late - we have it. So if you want to tell Yahoo! not to use your Yahoo! Directory tag, just add one of the following pieces of code to your site:

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

OR

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

Then next time Yahoo! Search crawls and indexes those changes (can be days or weeks or months) you will not longer see the Yahoo! Directory tag in the Yahoo! Search results.

Currently, my RustyBrick Yahoo! Search listing looks like this:

Yahoo Directory Title in Yahoo Search

But my title tag reads:

Web Design, Web Development & Web Services New York, NY

Will I add this tag to my listing, I may or may not. I am in no rush.

Thank you Yahoo!

Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld.



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posted rustybrick in Yahoo! Search Optimization at February 28, 2007 1:18 PM Comments (6)

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Thanks for pushing it. Helps me.

 

Posted by Aaron Rubin at February 28, 2007 14:59

It's been a long time coming, but very glad its here. Now I might be able to actually take control over organic click performance. I know you had a hand in keeping it on Yahoo!'s radar... thanks.

 

Posted by Scott Clark at February 28, 2007 23:37

Thanks for the info. I never understood what was going on with Yahoo. I am def. going to implement this right now.

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John
http://www.monomachines.com

 

Posted by John at March 1, 2007 15:01

Hi mate, Your a life saver! There was no way that I'd sacrifise my sites title to just "Phonenumbers4u" but now Yahoos! finally letting you use your own title tag, I'm going to join their directory today.

 

Posted by No Name at March 14, 2007 15:20

Thanks, I was wondering how to do that

 

Posted by Ventrilo at May 8, 2007 14:46

I recently read that doing this will help with rankings in Yahoo - has anyone else seen this?

 

Posted by No Name at November 5, 2007 20:46

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