Snippet
A snippet is an extract of content from 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.
The snippet can be displayed as a rich answer. That's an extended snippet with additional information about a site or organization. It can contain sitelinks, the organization's address, and other details.
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 contents of the title element.
- The contents 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.
