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What is the explanation of the meta-tag "Googlebot"


Sometimes an old metatag, the description tag, remains in the index of Google. Despite the fact that you change relevant information on your website and submit this to Google, the old description remains in the Google search results. Yahoo and Live will index the new information, Google won't.

This problem originates your results in the Open Directory Project DMOZ (also check the relations between the search engines). Your website, including the old meta description, also has a description and a link in the ODP listings. The Googlebot has used this description while spidering your website.

The solution is adding the following metatag:

<meta name="googlebot" content="code">

Example metatag GOOGLEBOT


Add the following metatag in the HTML source of your page:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noodp">

You now tell the Googlebot NOT to duplicate the ODP description but the description which is located on your website.

Where do you add the googlebot tag?


You may add this googlebot tag to all of your webpages, so not only in the first index page.
Make sure that on every page relevant metatags are added.  Add keywords and phrases that are relevant and correspond to the text and the language on that specific page. It might be a lot of work to add specific metatags to each page but you will notice in time that it works!

Meta-tags Summary - Important SEO things to remember

We suggest that you use the Meta-tags in your index.htm or index.html page. Than in all other important pages and last but not least in all the pages of your website. Make sure to put some extra effort in it, it will attract extra visitors to your webpage. Create relevant different meta-tags for each and every page.

  1. Read why meta-tags are important and how they affect the search engines.
  2. Use our meta-tags generator to create the correct meta-tags.
  3. Use our website analyzer to get professional advice from the meta-tags experts.
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