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Old November 29th, 2006, 07:12 AM
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Problem with my meta description in yahoo
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For some reason yahoo doesn't display my description meta tag.
What could be the problem?
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Old November 29th, 2006, 10:34 AM
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What is your website?

Is it the one in your profile?
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Old November 29th, 2006, 11:54 AM
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Maybe you are on his directory, and if you are you need to use a the meta command that don't show it
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Old January 3rd, 2007, 08:51 AM
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Hi!
For some reason yahoo doesn't display my description meta tag.
What could be the problem?
thanks!


maybe your description is too short. yahoo tends to index many characters in the description tag. when you have a small amount of text, it will grab text from another part of your site, maybe nav, to compensate.
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Yahoo description
I'm guessing your Yahoo Directory description is showing rather than your meta description. If that's the case, join the club. A lot of us are stuck with that scenerio and only Yahoo knows why. But, Yahoo is promising a meta tag shortly that we can include in our pages to keep that lame Yahoo Directory description from being used in the Yahoo serps.
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It can also come from your Dmoz listing
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Stop search engine from using DMOZ description
Put this in the head of your document to stop them from using dmoz descriptions.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
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