Snippet
A snippet is a block of information about a webpage that is shown in search results. The snippet includes the title and description of the page, and may also contain additional information about the site.
From snippets, users can get a general idea of the page or the information they need without visiting the site. The snippet may consist of the following elements:
- Website address. In some cases, the snippet for internal pages shows the address as breadcrumbs.
- Publication date.
- Contacts and other information. For example, the phone number and address of the organization.
Here is an example of a home page snippet:
Displaying the site title and description in search results
The title and description in the search results are generated based on:
- Page content
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- The content of the title element.
- The content of the Description meta tag.
- The text of the page, including the Schema.org microformat. A full list of special data that can be sent.
- Additional sources.
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- Yandex.Catalog.
- Yandex.Market.
- The text of links to the page that are posted on other sites.
How to delete a description from a snippet
| Source of information | How to remove |
|---|---|
| Yandex.Catalog | Add the robots meta tag with the noyaca directive to the HTML code of the pages. |
| The text on the page of your site | Disable text indexing with the noindex element. |
| The link on the page of your site | Prohibit indexing a link using the rel="nofollow" attribute. |
| Source of information | How to remove |
|---|---|
| Yandex.Catalog | Add the robots meta tag with the noyaca directive to the HTML code of the pages. |
| The text on the page of your site | Disable text indexing with the noindex element. |
| The link on the page of your site | Prohibit indexing a link using the rel="nofollow" attribute. |
For more information, see Snippet in Yandex.Webmaster Help.
