I've always thought that the Googleon and Googleoff tags were useless. I've never been able to find a confirmation from Google that they were actually working. But... I just realized that a company that has a very deep knowledge of the web and a very high PR is using them sucessfully: macromedia.com. Does anybody use those <!--googleoff: index--> and <!--googleon: index--> tags for SEO purposes? Just curious. I can think of a vew tricks to try with those... Make a page source view on macromedia.com if you don't believe me. NOT SURE what it is worth... -T
Could be handy if you are displaying rss feeds from other websites and you dont want to be possibly hit for dup content. If that would even trigger it. Also if you didnt want your navigation menu to be cached (maybe you have the links in the footer aswell). Then they could certainly come in handy. Brad
Note the word 'appliance' indicating inhouse Google search servers powering the site search or intranet.
Sounds specific to the Google appliance. Somebody could test if it works on the net by placing a unique phrase within the tags and see of it ranks.
so are you saying these tags only work on sites that use the google search appliance, not regular websites that are indexed in google?