Google and Open Directory Project

Sometimes to show a site in the search results Google uses page title and description as it appears on Open Directory Project (ODP), not from the site itself. This was a problem for many site administrators, including myself, as they could not change their sites title in Google listings. Now Google gave us a solution. To direct Google from using ODP to describe a page, use the following meta tag in the header of your page:

<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" content="NOODP" />

It may take some time for changes to your page to appear, once Google recrawles your site.

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