: Adding a list of "recent articles" affects SEO We have a site which has a sidebar with sections (or "widgets" if you like) showing stuff like "Recent Articles", "Other Articles by this User",
We have a site which has a sidebar with sections (or "widgets" if you like) showing stuff like "Recent Articles", "Other Articles by this User", "Similar Articles" etc.
The issue is, Google seems to take these links very seriously. In fact, if I have only a single article which is closely related to a certain phrase (and several other pages link to it in their sidebars), when I do a Google search, it lists all those other pages highlighting that one link to the page that should actually be the most relevant one. And these pages don't even mention the phrase anywhere else.
It there a common approach with adding these sidebar links? For example, I might add them through ajax after the page is loaded, but then crawlers will have harder time finding them?
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If you want those links read by search engines, then they will appear on search results. Adding them through ajax or javascript will prevent search engines from seeing them and they should gradually disappear from search engines. Adding a nofollow won't help.
Since the content on those widgets are variable, it should not be a big deal I think, as the pages that may get listed in search results will vary with time.
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