The other day as I was on E-lance, I saw a project posted by a webmaster, where he was offering $500 for fixing his tag line in Google Search Results. The project read something like ‘I am tired of seeing my website’s subject line listed wrongly in the Google Search Engine Result Pages. I am seeking Internet Marketing experts who can fix my Google Subject Line?’.
We started with entering the given keyword in the Google search and found that the result page was really showing wrong results in the Search Engine Result Page.
Initially we thought that it might be a current change that the webmaster would have made to the website title and maybe the old pages are still stuck in the Google cache and its returning the title tag of the old pages. However when we ran a check to see when last did Mr. Spidey cache the website, we were amazed to see that the website was cached the very day itself.
Suddenly a thought hit me, I wondered if Google is drawing these results from some 3rd party authority website which is overruling the current website Title. And I was right. I ran a search in the DMoz directory and found that the website was listed there with the same name as follows:-
Adding this Meta tag added to your HTML would completely prevent the Google Spiders from drawing the content snippets from such open directories. No More Invalid Results! Gee! that’s an easy way to buck $500 isnt it? 
Tags: Search Engine Updates
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