um, I have a robots meta question
 

So instead of having no robots meta tag, on my pages and having googlebot index and cache everything, I was wanting to insert <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP">
which basically means that I am trying to encourage search engines to use the page title tag, and match term in context, or META Description tag content instead of the ODP content, which may be outdated, as I rarely update my front page of my foot fetish video site.

Now the question is, will I be penalized with my seo rankings becuase I am directing said robots to just crawl my title and description tags?

Im pretty sure they love to crawl those anyway...

:winkwink:

Isn't that the No Open Dir Project? Adding that forces Google to use your title/desc, and not pull it from the ODP.

I haven't ever tested it though, so I really can't say what the end result will be. But since you aren't really changing anything on page, but just telling Google to use something different, after they gave you the rankings.. I don't think it will make a difference, ranking wise.

I thought that noodp tells the search engines not to use the title in your ODP (DMOZ) listings when they create search results pages...If you use this tag they won't not crawl your content.

Exactly, it's DMOZ. From what I understand, both msn, ask and yahoo bots are now configured with algorithms to penalize site specific outbounds with the keywords "fetish", "tits, "asses", etc, etc unless those keywords are in the html of the referring page itself, rather than outbound links with those same keywords.

If anything, it's good fyi me thinks...

That code is <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

You can also use <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOSNIPPET"> Which basically encourages search engines to use the title only, and to suppress your "cache" link. It might be useful if the site has special plus box listings in search results, but otherwise, not so much.