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Posted Anonymously
How can I insert metatags to the source of my page.
Jul 12 2010, 6:00 AM EDT | Post edited: Jul 12 2010, 6:00 AM EDT
To prevent yahoo.com from changing my wetpaint.com page title I need to add the following
metatags to the source code of my website:

<META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOODP">

<META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOYDIR">

These lines of code will prevent Yahoo from using third parties to
determine the title or description of my website in the Yahoo Search
results. More information is at: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/indexing/indexing-11.html

Unfortunately, there is no way to add metatags to wetpaint.com pages.
Once I inserted the metatag in a widget, but it did not work.
Is it possible to insert HTML metatags to my entire wetpaint.com URLs.
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Posted Anonymously
1. Metatags
Jul 12 2010, 6:04 AM EDT | Post edited: Jul 12 2010, 6:04 AM EDT
"<META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOODP">
"

Yahoo.com's incapable technology changes the title of wetpaint.com pages.
My page/URL name is exactly 'Site educational', does not write 'blogs' in the title. However, yahoo.com without any reason changes the page title to 'Site educational-Google Blogs''.
Yahoo.com states that the page should have <META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOYDIR"> metatag.
This guideline of yahoo.com definitely lacks a piece of mind. My page does not have any meta tag that gives yahoo.com robots 'change the title' permission.
My HTML page source as viewed via Internet Browser declares that the page has a certain title.
My page does not give any permission to yahoo.com to change my page content. Yahoo.com violates my page copyrights. Do you find this valuable?    

Posted Anonymously
2. RE: Some metatags are good, some not.
Jul 12 2010, 7:10 AM EDT | Post edited: Jul 12 2010, 7:10 AM EDT
If my page title were blank, with no words; yahoo.com would have been right to write an arbitrary title, wordings for my page. But, my page has a title, my page declares that the page has a special title. Yahoo.com abused my page. I deleted my page's valuable content, wasted my content to prevent yahoo.com from abusing my page. I agree that a deleted page should have a <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> metatag. But, a page with a title does not need ''NOYDIR''. ''NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW'' protects the copyrights; whereas, ''NOYDIR'' metatag conflicts with copyrights of the page. Do you find this valuable?    

Posted Anonymously
3. RE: metatags
Jul 12 2010, 12:57 PM EDT | Post edited: Jul 12 2010, 12:57 PM EDT
Some interface metatags(technical descriptions) between two search engines might be useful. For example, yahoo.com may use google.com fabricated technical description for an image. Such metatags help yahoo.com to put the content under either image rather than web module. Technical metatags might match right modules between two search engines. Technical metatags tell yahoo.com robots that the content is not an image, but a web/text file. But, such technical tags should not be visible to human eyes as site title. Some yahoo.com engineers are abusing usage of metatags. Do you find this valuable?    
Baby_Apple
Baby_Apple
4. RE: metatags
Jul 12 2010, 1:49 PM EDT | Post edited: Jul 12 2010, 1:49 PM EDT
You cannot modify the meta tags of your wiki's pages. That would require direct access to your wiki's HTML, which is not possible, as this would allow you to remove the advertisements from your wiki. Do you find this valuable?    

Posted Anonymously
5. RE: metatags
Jul 13 2010, 2:17 PM EDT | Post edited: Jul 13 2010, 2:17 PM EDT
"this would allow you to remove the advertisements from your wiki. "
Thanks for your reply. My site is an educational site and does not have any ads as wetpaintcentral arranged. Do you find this valuable?    

Posted Anonymously
6. RE: metatags
Jul 13 2010, 2:41 PM EDT | Post edited: Jul 13 2010, 2:41 PM EDT
Although yahoo.com guidelines ask insertion of ''..NOODP.." metatag to my site, I personally do not find this yahoo.com guideline as very meaningfull. Some Yahoo.com engineers are abusing metatag usage. Meanwhile, I took my personal measures against yahoo.com abuse of my page title, I replaced all words to change yahoo.com algorithm. I wasted almost all content of the page. Yahoo.com should respect web site owner's titles. Do you find this valuable?    

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