Well, the results are in. Oilman was absolutely right - as if I ever doubted him for a moment! The NOSNIPPET robots argument was not only preventing Google from generating a random snippet of text to use as the description within the SERPS, it appears to have been preventing a description from showing at all. … [Read more...]
Unexpected Results Using NOSNIPPET
I have been playing around with some different robots arguments to determine exactly what they do. The constructive purpose of the nosnippet tag continues to elude me, as it didn't work as I had believed it would (or should, for that matter). In using the nosnippet argument, my assumption was that it would prevent Google from simply choosing random text from the page as the SERP description - opting instead to default to the information included in the description META tag. That isn't, … [Read more...]
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