Thread: Prevent indexing a part of a page?

**Frinkky** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 12.33

Is it possible to prevent the indexing of a portion of a page, like an announcement? If so, how best to achieve this?

Thanks.

**stu2000** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 13.06

This may help:

Tell Google to Not Index Certain Parts of Your Page ? Perishable Press

<p>This is normal (X)HTML content that will be indexed by Google.</p>



<p>This (X)HTML content will NOT be indexed by Google.</p>

<!--googleon: index>

Not tested it though!

**Frinkky** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 13.21

Perfect - thank you.

**stu2000** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 13.22

Nooooooo problemo

**Frinkky** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 13.32

Hmm, just read the whole article - apparently this applies to Google Search Appliance, rather than googlebot.

I'll try adding the announcement content after the main content and position it with css. Or perhaps create an image on the fly to replace the text. Whatever, I will have to turn announcements off till I can sort this.

**stu2000** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 13.37

nuts! lol

does Google read the content within iFrames?

If not you could put the announcements in a seperate page, set it for Google to not read the page with the announcements in, and then insert the announcements page into an iframe? Probably won't work, but thought I'd put it out there!

**CloudedVision** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 17.20

A much better solution would be to use PHP to detect a bot: Insane Visions - Bot Detection with PHP Tutorial :: Premium PHP Scripts - AdaptCMS, AdaptBB

(Just Google "PHP bot detection." There are a million tutorials)

**saltedm8** · 7 Jul 2010 @ 17.57

lol.. I had a chat with jon about that earlier, I handed him a copy of that code that I had slightly customised as it did not work properly.. sorry, maybe I should have posted it.