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.
The snippet can be represented as a rich answer. This is an enriched snippet with advanced information about your site or company. It may contain sitelinks, the company's address, and other data.
Here is an example of a home page snippet:
Displaying the site title and description in search results
The page title and description in the search results are based on:
- Page content.
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- The title element contents.
- The Description meta tag content changed.
- Page text, including the Schema.org markup. See the full list of special data that can be sent.
- Additional sources.
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- Yandex.Catalog
- Yandex.Market
- Texts of links to the page from other sites.
How to remove the description from a snippet
| Data source | How to remove |
|---|---|
| Yandex.Catalog | Add the robots meta tag with the noyaca directive in the HTML code of the pages. |
| Text on your website page | Disable text indexing using the noindex element. |
| Link on your website page | Disable link indexing with the rel="nofollow" attribute. |
| Data source | How to remove |
|---|---|
| Yandex.Catalog | Add the robots meta tag with the noyaca directive in the HTML code of the pages. |
| Text on your website page | Disable text indexing using the noindex element. |
| Link on your website page | Disable link indexing with the rel="nofollow" attribute. |
For more information, see Snippet in Yandex.Webmaster Help.
