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Old 07-07-2008, 10:22 AM
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Is there any way to tell a search engine to ignore a certain section of content on a page (not the entire page) ?

Say for example I've got some text on a page I don't want indexed by a search engine but I want the rest of the page indexed ?

I've not come across anything like this before ... but I was just curious as a footer / disclaimer on a page I've done will appear on all pages and its quite long. Now I don't really know if it'd make all the much difference still it'd be nice to have some kinda noidex tag available ? And not just for the complete document.
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I looked into that before but couldn't find any good information. I was hoping you could put a noindex on a <p> tag and then close the </p> further down the page. That'd be nice.

I think if you used an iframe it might not be crawlable if you put a noindex in the meta of that iframe page, but that's messy.

I have never tested it though. Might be worth checking out. Discussion here about it <iframe> Seo No No Or Seo Yay Yay? - High Rankings Search Engine Optimization Forum
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The SE indexes the entire page so there is no way of telling to ignore a certain portion. You can however, remove the disclaimer and make it available on a new page where you ad the meta tag robots "nofollow,noindex", and add a link to the footer of all pages with "rel='nofollow'" tag.
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Thanks cormac. I'm kinda against iframes but it might do the trick for me. ( I just like frames )

I had been hoping like yourself I could have a <p content="noindex"> surprised it doesn't exist already.

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The SE indexes the entire page so there is no way of telling to ignore a certain portion. You can however, remove the disclaimer and make it available on a new page where you ad the meta tag robots "nofollow,noindex", and add a link to the footer of all pages with "rel='nofollow'" tag.
The disclaimer has to be on each page so having it as a separate page isn't really an option. Thanks though louie

One alternative would be to ake it into an image ... or flash (though now it may even get indexed). But I'd be against this as its no longer readable / accessible.
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AFIAK google observes ...
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<p class="robots-nocontent"> ignore this, i.e. naivgation area, copyright notice, etc.</p>
and for adsense it's
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<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
Important text for AdSense
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

normal text

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
Text that AdSense should ignore
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
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Good catch Paul. Yahoo! Search Blog: Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections + How do I mark web page content that is extraneous to the main unique content on the page? - Yahoo! Search Help

Doesn't look like any other SE supports noindex on P's though.
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How about using an image for the disclaimer?
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How about using an image for the disclaimer?
Not a place I really want to go ... I don't think its honestly that much of an issue though I was still curious if there was something I didn't know about .. and I've already learnt a few things so
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