Historically the Open Directory Project takes optimized titles and turns them into nothing more than your company name. Since engines like Google and MSN will at times only display your ODP title, this creates a big dissadvantage for your “click-through” rates. MSN has actually released a new tag allowing webmaster to “opt-out” of the DMOZ title for the MSN.com search engine.
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http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=63851
