Taking Back Control of Your Google Search Listing

Google has recently announced a new meta tag that it’s spiders will take notice of that allows you more control over the text snippet they use in the search results. Basically, in it’s search results, Google uses the text in the Meta Description tag (well the first 155 characters anyway) as the description snippet and the underlined clickable title comes from the Title meta tag. All well and good and basic webmaster stuff to set these up and make an appealing title and description to entice Google searchers to click on your link. However, if your site is listed in the Open Directory Project (ODP) (www.dmoz.org) then things are completely different. Obtaining an ODP listing was always a top priority for savvy webmasters, as it always seemed to give an extra boost View the rest of this article