Prevent DMOZ and Yahoo Directory Title Descriptions

Since most search engines treat links from DMOZ and Yahoo Directory as 'highly trusted' sometimes Google, Yahoo or MSN (Live Search) may actually pull titles and descriptions from DMOZ or Yahoo Directory, instead of from page content or META descriptions.

If ever your website is displaying a title or description coming from DMOZ in the search results, you can tell the search engines to not display the data from DMOZ by using the NOODP tag.

 meta name="”robots”" content="”NOODP”" 

Since this is a meta tag, this is place appropriately within the tag.

If ever your website is displaying a title or description coming from the Yahoo Directory in the search results, you can tell the search engines to not display the data from Yahoo Directory by using the NOYDIR tag.

 meta name="”robots”" content="”NOYDIR”"