Is it Possible to Noindex the site Footer alone?

I have some unfavorable links in my site footer which I'm supoosed to leave untouched. I wish to noindex them, but not sure I can do it using <noindex> meta tags. Is it possible to do so, by wrapping it with some code? Or somehow using robots.txt?

I have had someone tell me to use iframes, but I read it isn't quite the perfect fix. What do you guys suggest?

Thank you

 

You could make the link a NoFollow if that serves your purpose.

 

If u want some links not to be indexed by the search engine bots then insert following line into ur robots.txt file

User-Agent: *
Disallow: <Link to be noindex>

Code (markup):

If u are using "nofollow" for a link then search engine will index that link but will not give any benefit like PR to that link. Hope this will help

 

use both nofollow and robots.txt to be sure

 

I cannot nofollow the links directly in my footer.php, for they are encrypted and should remain untouched in the footer. Can you think of a way to apply the nofollow directive from elsewhere? Like, is it possible to nofollow a URL using robots.txt or some other workaround?
The reason I want to noindex my footer is to avoid penalty from Google since the links are irrelevant to my blog content and I couldn't get to nofollow them.

 

How about putting the footer in a separate frame, and making the frame noindex?

 

Are you sure the links are actually encrypted? The may just be encoded and you can change them. Post a sample and we can take a look.

You can no follow individual links this way. <a href="http://www.somesite.com" rel="nofollow">Site</a>

 

No, it's clearly mentioned in the footer.php that if the links are edited, the site might stop working and it did happen so when I tried adding nofollow to them; there are hacks to decrypt them, but it would be against the license terms of the theme I'm using.
Yea, I know to add the nofollow attribute - just wondering if it is possible to use it on the concerned URLs from elsewhere...