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NOODP Robots is now obsolete

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    NOODP Robots is now obsolete

    NOODP Robots is now obsolete
    Google just announced that the NOODP robots directive is now obsolete and totally useless, Google began using NOODP back in 2006. Since DMOZ closed back in March 2017, there is no reason for the noodp tag to exist and Google drops its support on it, meaning it will stop using titles tags or descriptions from the Open Directory Project because they won't get updated anymore. 

    This is the official statement from Google:

    With DMOZ now closed, we've stopped using its listings for snippeting, so it's a lot more important that webmasters provide good meta descriptions, if adding more content to the page is not an option.
    The NOODP tags will slowly become a ghost, only to be seen on some forgotten old website's source code. It is time for Wordpress plugins list Yoast to also update their services and remove the NOODP once and for all. 
    Overall this is pretty historic stuff happening. Google officially drops the last remanence of a directory support and is moving on.  

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    Makefort

    Makefort

    Well, a good thing is that they still have a community website for it with all the sites listed and categorized. How many people will be using that, I can't tell, but it is a nice thing to have a backup of something so big.
    7 years ago

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    overcast

    DMOZ was good while it was working. I am guessing that some of the changes that happened after the closure of ODP. It was bound to happen that those bots are no longer be crawling. And google also updated their algos for the changes in the ODP. So in future I hope other directories open up for better links. So far other than lycos, there are not many dedicated links being crawled either. So that's another thing.
    7 years ago

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    Corzhens

    Corzhens

    Does this mean that there is a major change in the algorithm of Google? To be honest, I don’t fully understand that NOODP thing but what I know is that once a method in search engines becomes obsolete then it will just be there and will not have serve its original purpose. Just like the Page Rank of Google, is it the same case?
    6 years ago

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