Is it possible to stop Google (and others) from indexing part of a Web page? In particular, due to privacy concerns, i want to hide a few data from google without de-indexing the whole page with robots.txt-- can this be done somehow? Please give suggestions how to stop google from crawling a particular part of a webpage. Thanks!
You can use this meta in the header section: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> Good luck
robots.txt can control the access to full page,but cannot control the access over specific part of the page. You can try placing the content which should not be crawled in a iframe or if its a text you can convert it as a image & embed in the page.