Blocking robots from crawling names

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by legal-nurse-consultant, Sep 7, 2006.

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    I am working on a site about bankruptcy repair. The owner of the company wants to include testimonials with the people's real names. However, we do not want the page to show up in a search result for their name (could be embarasing for them). I could use a robots file to block the page, but it has great content and I want the page to be crawled.

    I thought about creating an image file of their name, but there are quite a few testimonials on the page. Any other suggestions? Is there a way to tell the spider to not index the name?
     
    legal-nurse-consultant, Sep 7, 2006 IP
  2. Pat Gael

    Pat Gael Banned

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    #2
    I would encrypt the page or the portions I don't like to be crawled.

    Search engines can't read them.
     
    Pat Gael, Sep 7, 2006 IP
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    #3
    how do you encrypt portions of the page?
     
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    #4
    There a couple of free online tools to do so:

    
    http://www.1-hit.com/online-payment-systems/html-encryption.htm
    
    http://javascript.about.com/library/blenc.htm
    
    Code (markup):
     
    Pat Gael, Sep 7, 2006 IP
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    Thank you very much. The first one will work.
     
    legal-nurse-consultant, Sep 8, 2006 IP
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    Or why not just use their first names?
     
    Tara33, Sep 8, 2006 IP
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