Remove DMOZ and Yahoo Directory Titles and Descriptions
Friday, June 22nd, 2007This is already old news for the seasoned SEO professional but still new to many budding SEO noobs out there. The main reason I posted this was because of a thread I found on SEO Philippines’ Forum, where someone was asking why the title on the Google search results were still showing the old titles. And in fact, they were actually being pulled from DMOZ, (www.dmoz.org) also known as ODP or Open Directory Project. (Note: The page on this link is not the Open Directory Project)
Since Google, Yahoo and other search engines consider links from DMOZ and Yahoo Directory as highly trusted links and put some weight on them, sometimes Google, Yahoo or MSN (Live Search) may actually pull titles and descriptions from DMOZ or Yahoo Directory if (more…)
Getting out of Google’s Supplemental Index
Sunday, June 10th, 2007The drive for me to write this blog post was mainly from a PM from a member of SEO Philippines. His message below and i translated parts of his message in Tagalog to English.
This is Carl of carlocab.com
I have been a fan of you since the start
Your the best in SEO! And, I’m not. hehehehehe…
If you have the time, may I please ask for some tips how you got most of your pages of your globalwarming awareness2007 blog in the supplemental index? Because my blog has 100+ pages in the supplemental index
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And based on what I know, the less pages in the supplemental index results of a certain site, the higher the search engine ranking isn’t it?
If you have to chat, you can add me
********@hotmail.com
********@yahoo.comThanks
Carl
Before I do answer this, lets do some definitions first.
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- Google (2)
- Jobs (1)
- Monetization (5)
- Optimizing Code (3)
- Other SEO Stuff (2)
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