"No index" part of page only

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    I remember reading ages ago about a tag that tells a search engine not to index a certain part of a page, but I never paid attention to it nor have I ever used it.

    Right now I need this for a project that I'm working on, but don't know what the tag is, can you help?

    Also is the tag universal to the main search engines? or just Google?

    Thanks
     
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  2. newlogo

    newlogo Peon

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    its for google only, google is universal now
     
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  3. bogs

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  4. DigiTrack

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    yes u can do this using meta tags
     
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  5. Toopac

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    Lol Google is, btw what is the tag?

    Nope

    And nope, but thanks.

    It is something like (I'm totally making the tag up now in the example below):


    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
    <title>TITLE</title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <meta name="description" content="Description" />
    <meta name="keywords" content="keyword" />
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    </head>


    <body>

    <p>This is my first paragraph.</p>

    <p><noindextag>This is my second paragraph.</noindextag></p>

    </body>

    </html>
     
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    I'm not aware of the tag, but how about using an iframe or javascript.
     
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    Could that be seen as blackhat?
     
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  8. Mr. Gill

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    Not to index a certain part of a page ?
    I don't think there was ever such a tag.

    If you want some text which you don't want search engines to crawl then why don't you create a image and write text on it. If you are good with photoshop then image will look like normal text written on the page.
     
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    I believe Yahoo! still supports robots-noindex as a class that can be used to tell them NOT to consider a particular part of a page as content when indexing/ranking the URL, but Google to my knowledge does not.

    I'm pretty sure I read a recent post just a few days ago by Danny Sullivan somewhere in which he was interviewing a Yahoo! exec at SMX East I think who indicated a renewed interest in this as a way webmaster's can signify to Yahoo! which parts of the page are templated. But I can't for the life of me find it right now.
     
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  10. addlinkurl

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    you use the meta tag or you can block the bot by robots.txt.
     
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    Google bots index links in java scripts, but iframe is better option to do so. maybe you can block by css file?
     
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  12. Toopac

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    Your the daddy! That must be it.

    Although I read about this tag awhile ago I never took much notice of it, because at the time I didn't see the value of it at all - I only remembered this tag recently because of a slight problem I have on page.

    I hardly think it will help though, nevermind moving on forward... lol
     
    Toopac, Oct 21, 2009 IP