drewgainor
Joined: Apr 12, 2004
# Posts: 37
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Posted: 07/16/2007 06:41 am
For the past few weeks all of my search results in Yahoo are showing up with no description and the keywords searched as the title as opposed to the title tag. It shows up fine in google. I noticed a few other people in the forums were seeing this as well but nobody seemed to know why. Anybody have any idea what could be causing this?
Thanks
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
# Posts: 793
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Posted: 07/16/2007 11:06 am
i took a look at your source code
you have <meta name="verify-v1" before and after your metas, try changing the order and put the description and keyword tag first after the title.
why do you have 2 <meta name="verify-v1" tags, should only be one
you have huge white space in your source code, try to remove and tighten up the code
you have two sets of meta keyword and decription tags, remove a set
the ":" in the description and keyword tags can act as delimiters or stop characters sometimes, remove the ":" from your meta tags
drop these tags completely
<meta name="PUBDATE" content="May 2, 2006">
<meta name="PUBTIME" content="9:23 AM">
they are not needed
try and see if the problem resolves itself
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drewgainor
Joined: Apr 12, 2004
# Posts: 37
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Posted: 07/16/2007 12:21 pm
Thanks for your detailed reply. I figured as much, i haven't updated the site in years and have been hoping to redo it completely. My web developer has been slammed with another project. I figured once we redid the site and cleaned up all of the code it would probably straighten itself out. Thanks for confirming that, i just wanted to make sure there wasn't something else i was missing.
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g1smd
Moderator
Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10178
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Posted: 07/16/2007 12:39 pm
There may be something else, but that stuff needs cleaning up first.
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
# Posts: 793
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Posted: 07/16/2007 02:50 pm
yeah, i agree, it may be something else, but lets hope its as simple as what i found
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madhus
Joined: Apr 28, 2006
# Posts: 69
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Posted: 07/17/2007 03:56 am
Hi,
What is the purpose of <meta name="verify-v1"....>. Please let me know its use.
Thanks & Regards,
Madhus
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drewgainor
Joined: Apr 12, 2004
# Posts: 37
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Posted: 07/17/2007 08:21 am
That tag is used by Google to verify you are the web master in order to use google's webmaster tools.
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joannac
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 267
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Posted: 10/20/2007 10:51 pm
<meta name="verify-v1"....>.
you do not need this tag.. If you look at the webmaster tools you have an option
to let you create an html file with nothing on it and they give you the name to name it .html
all you have to do is put that into your root directory and then hit verify and it will do the same thing.
I did not like that tag myself either.
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mj1256
Joined: Jun 05, 2006
# Posts: 793
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Posted: 10/21/2007 08:35 am
i don't think this effects the ranking and indexing in any way.
opinions?
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g1smd
Moderator
Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 10/21/2007 10:22 am
It is easier to use the file verification method.
One less thing to clutter the page code up with.
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beth_lk
Insider
Joined: Jun 23, 2004
# Posts: 1065
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Posted: 10/21/2007 10:38 am
where can I learn about how to create the file method?
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g1smd
Moderator
Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 10/21/2007 12:17 pm
Somewhere in the Site Verification section of the Google Webmaster Tools website.
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