Hello, I have a blog which I've recently started up and it has a fairly lengthy tagline. This tagline is at the top of the page (code and visually) and runs consistently through my blog entries. This tagline bares little relevance to the individual blog entries and I would like to be able to hide it from the SE's as it will carry no keywords relevant to the specific page. I wish to hide it, but without compromise to accessibility. I want screen readers to still be able to read the content and also people who have javascript disabled. Hence frames, flash and even an image are out of the question. Is there a way to simply tell the SE not to read these lines of text? Like 'nofollow', only 'noread'? Any help would be appreciated.
I dont think so that there is such kind of facility available for blogs otherwise for websites nofollow tag is the best solution. if u get an answer than i request you to forward it to me as well.
The best answer to this question is to not put it online to begin with. Besides, given that it's a tagline, I doubt people would be searching for the words in there anyway. So other than not putting it in your site, just make sure you don't put any keywords in there. That's the best you can do, really.
No, this is an SEO related question. It's in the proper sub-forum. This the answer I agree with most, Dan is the man when it comes to rational common sense; something many DPers lack.
Thanks for the replies, but the context of the tagline is relevant to creating a visual consistency - it's basically more of a design element and I would like to separate it from content with it still remaining accessible. I would love to give a link so that you could see, but the site isn't finished yet and I don't want people reading articles that aren't finished. Okay, ideally I would like to inject content via CSS, though I know this isn't supported cross-browser (using the :after and :before pseudo classes). Secondly I would like to use javascript to obfuscate the content, however I need to support browsers with javascript disabled. Do SE's read content in the <noscript> tags? Thirdly I would like to inject content using PHP. Does anyone know of any way of doing this? Maybe pulling the text from a database entry? Again I must reiterate that it is essential that the content remains, I just need to find a way of hiding it from SE's. Also, would this be seen as BHSEO by Google? Thanks for all the help. But seeing as this is the first text on every page, would it not dilute the keywords that follow it? I always aim to have the opening paragraph to contain specific keywords, however the SE's are detecting this tagline as the first paragraph to every page.
Well, basically generated content isn't supported by IE 5/6/7, but it will be in 8 (it's the only browser that really has that problem). As long as the text isn't in a heading (I'd probably use a span here just to be on the safe side since it doesn't appear to be a paragraph of contextually related sentences based on your description, nor does it appear to be a "division of the page"), bold, em, italic or strong tags (you can use CSS for the formatting), and don't contain any real keywords, you'll be fine. And to answer your other question, no it won't dllute the keywords that follow.