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The DMOZ Open Directory Project is a great place for your website and web pages to be listed. Google and the other search engines consider DMOZ an authority website, and a link from there to your site will help give your site more authority.
In fact, Google has so much respect for DMOZ that they’ll sometimes use the DMOZ description of your site or page as the search snippet (the chunk of text under the main link to your site) in their search engine results pages (SERPs).
This is fine if your site has a good description on DMOZ. But, it can become a problem when you want Google to use the meta-description that you’ve specified for the page. After all, many of us will spend a good amount of time crafting the meta-description that we want searchers to see as the snippet.
Block the DMOZ description
However, it’s easy to make sure Google never uses the DMOZ description as a search snippet for your site. Just put the following code into your website’s pages <head> section:
<meta content=”noodp” />
If you want to control search engine snippets for all of your website’s pages, it’s best to add this code to every page on your site.