: How to display Cookie Notification text to users that is ignored by Search Engines? Websites within the EU are meant to inform users about the use of cookies on their website. Whilst the law

@Samaraweera270

As discussed by Matt Cutts here, legally required content that's duplicated in a site shouldn't be cause for concern. Like copyright notices, privacy statements, or terms & conditions found on most sites, this wouldn't impact SEO.

However, you still might not want such a notice to show up in search engine snippets (in the case of thin content, missing description, etc...) or cache - particularly for visitors outside of the E.U.

There are some potential ways to block search engines from indexing part of a page, as covered in this question (e.g., using JavaScript, AJAX, and iFrames). Since many search engine bots like Google's primarily crawl from the U.S. however, you could selectively hide the cookies notice for requests coming from their user-agents by redirecting to a page without it, or dynamically including it through SSI, PHP include, etc...

There are also open-source solutions such as this one which attempt to only display the notice to visitors coming from the E.U. - see this. And you might use the GeoIP Country database to accomplish something similar.

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@Cofer257

It absolutely makes no difference if you have one or two sentences repeated across a site. So stop worrying about it.

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