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Yahoo Displaying DMOZ Title? Also Not Following NOODP 
By: Benj Arriola 2009-11-11 Just a few minutes ago, colleague Laura Beatty here at BusinessOnLine notices something on Yahoo, and says Yahoo is not showing the correct title tag. I took at look at it searching BusinessOL and yup, it does look different. After looking at it deeper, of course the first think we checked was Yahoo Directory since Yahoo is already known to do this, in the same way how Google and Bing sometimes pull titles from DMOZ, but they are still different. Its not Yahoo Directory, its not the title tag, so it must be DMOZ? So far, it does look like the title is pulled from DMOZ aka the ODP. Even if we had the NOODP, NOYDIR tags in there for a very long time. I am not sure if I have read anywhere that Yahoo pulls titles from DMOZ, all I know is it pulls from Yahoo Directory. And if this is indeed pulling from DMOZ, it is not following the NOODP tag which I believe it should. Is Yahoo broken? Well Im not really surprised right now. In the previous SMX East, Yahoo announced they no longer read the Meta Keywords tags, and just after a few weeks, Danny proves them wrong. Has anyone else been seeing the same observations? Wed be glad to hear from you also if you are seeing the same thing, tell us about it. Benj thinks Yahoo and Bing are working out how to merge these two algorithms and is probably working on it already causing some functions running erratically on Yahoo. Comments Tag: Yahoo, DMOZ Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Benj Arriola is the 2007 SEO World Champion and won 2nd Place in the 2008 UK Webmaster World SEO Contest. An insightful web expert who brings to BusinessOnLine his solid methodologies for using technology and the power of the community to solve tough SEO challenges. |
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