Yahoo! Directory Listing Inaccuracy PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jerry West   
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
If you are one of the few webmasters who still has a Yahoo! Directory listing for $299.00 a year, you may have noticed your listing looks a little “off” as mine does below:

Yahoo Directory Listing Before

The solution? It’s easy. Just look in your code of your home page and you’ll see this line:

<meta name="robots" content="noydir">

Just remove it. What this line is for is to not allow Yahoo to use it’s Directory Title and Description in the SERPs. Unfortunately, what it chooses is well, awful. In about 2-4 days after removing it, your listing will return to “normal” as shown below:

Yahoo Directory Listing After

As you can see the Title is back to normal (no longer just the domain name) and the Description is included, as it wasn’t earlier.

 
 
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