possible to do a "noindex" for certain sections?
Hey all,
I'm aware of the robots noindex thing to keep them from putting your page's content in searches, but is it possible to prevent just a particular section of a page from being indexed?
My problem is that the text phrases for links to other pages on my site are being indexed (along with the rest of the content) and appearing in search results as content, giving a false impression to whoever lands on that page.
Here's an example. Let's say there's exactly one page on my site that talks about poker. But on a dozen other pages, there's a link to that poker page, saying something like, "Check out my poker tips on this page"
So someone searching for "poker tips" on my site will get thirteen results: 12 unrelated pages with the link on there, and the one real page.
I care more about usability than search engine hits - I prefer my visitors to find exactly what they thought they were looking for.
So is there something to designate that certain elements should not be indexed?
TIA
Busy posted this at 09:38 — 14th February 2006.
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Only way I can think of is by using frame or iframe but isn't recommended
Michael Allison posted this at 17:32 — 14th February 2006.
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robots.txt
Here's a quick tutorial: http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm
Anita.Bonghit posted this at 18:57 — 14th February 2006.
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Michael, that site seems to be down. But I looked up robots.txt on yahoo and learned that it allows for the exclusion of entire pages, not sections of a page. Thanks anyways.
Busy, I thought of a frame too, but it's not suitable for my page.
Yall have any other ideas? Thanks
Michael Allison posted this at 20:54 — 14th February 2006.
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I'm sorry, I misunderstood. In that case, just put a rel="nofollow" attribute on all but one of the links. That way, the SEs will only follow one link and not all 13.
I hope that makes sense.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
-Henry David Thoreau
Busy posted this at 21:08 — 14th February 2006.
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Robots only does full pages or folders.
You could probably try some fancy javascript (fancy because SE read javascript) and try mask the content.
Me personaly wouldn't worry about it. If I'm searching for say 'poker tips' I always look at the description (and domain name) of the site. The description is usually from your meta tags you've set so would see if it's related or not
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