Opting out of DMOZ snippets

July 25th, 2006

After performing a search, Google automatically pulls the title and descriptive snippet from the Open Directory Project. Google now supports a “NOODP” tag which will allow you to “opt out” of this description and write your own.

Using the script:

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”>

Not all search engines will support this tag, so to only apply it for Google change “ROBOTS” to “GOOGLEBOT” so the script appears:

<META NAME=”GOOGLEBOT” CONTENT=”NOODP”>

You’ll of course have to wait for the page to be crawled again for the changes to take effect.