Removing Descriptions From Google Results - Snippets

Q: My page is showing up in the result with a description that I don't want it to use. How do I contact Google and tell them not to use that description?

A: The description displayed in the search results by Google is called a "snippet". Snippets can come from any text on the page or in the meta tags. As well, an onslaught of sites pointing to a website can cause particular snippets to appear because of the recognized popularity of that page for given textual inbound links.

To request removal of a snippet, you need only add a line of code to your header.

Google provides the following instructions.

Prevent or remove snippets

A snippet is a text excerpt that appears below a page's title in our search results and describes the content of the page.

To prevent Google from displaying snippets for your page, place this tag in the "head" section of your page:

Meta name: name="GOOGLEBOT"
Meta content: content="NOSNIPPET"

Note: Removing snippets also removes cached pages.

If you want to your page to have a snippet in our search results, but want to prevent Google from using description information from the Open Directory Project, you can use the robots META tag.

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