How do I tell Google to ignore my left nav bar?

Can I write some HTML code to tell Google that a certain part of the page is only a nav bar.

Something like
<no indexing>
blah blah
</no indexing>

thanx

 

Why would you want to do this? Just let google index all your page.

 

use flash to create your left nav bar? Flash can’t be accessed by google as far as I know…

 

But if the search engine can't see your navigation links it won't find your pages.

 

Google is capable of indexing flash content. Hiding your navigation - links to your own pages I assume - makes no sense.

 

I can't see any benefits from that, do you want only your home page to be indexed?!

 

Google can index you page by using sitemap or something.

I was wandering if it was a cleaver move to remove any noise that shows up on Google's Lynx like spider before the heading of the article.

 

There's a trick involved. Follow these steps:
1. Make two separate columns in your web page.
2. Divide the left hand column vertically into two cells.
3. Accommodate the navigation bar in the left cell of the second row from the top, keeping the cell above it blank.
4. Now insert the body of the web page in the topmost cell of the right hand column.

By default, Google will scan your page in this sequence:
Blank cell->Body->Navbar.

 

Yeah. Thanx. I remember that I have heard about this before. I'll se if I can implement it. I already have too many tables and stuff on me site. Note quite into structural CSS yet.

 

you can not do that.

your navigation links will help your seo

 

Hello,
You could do that maybe with javascript

Jakomo

 

use javascript.. google or any other SE can't index your left bar.. because it will not see that section which is rendered as JS code..

 

Does anyone perhaps have a script example? Thanks.

 

If yopu don't want to index your nav bar, you use flash files. Google dont index flash fiels.

 

hi

u can use javascript then google's spider seen always ur pages for html content not a javascript

Thanks

 

I would propose you to adopt the content first CSS framework like:

http://www.pmob.co.uk/temp/3colfixedtest_sourcenone.htm

It will show the content first before your navigations.

It is highly advisable not to only rely on sitemap to detect the other pages. We never know if Google will take in any considerations of internal text link navigation to rank your site.

 

@Digital Lion - You're most welcome.

 

@vk lisbon - Nice idea. It's true that flash files are an excellent alternative (provided you have the bandwidth).