: How to prevent a search engines from indexing a section of a page? I have many pages with lots of text in it. But I will always have two sections of text and I want to prevent one section

@Bethany197

One thing that may be possible is to keep the section you do not want indexing in a collapsed <div>. You can then use some button to trigger a JavaScript/jQuery event and inject the content into the <div>.

$(".get-out").html("Enter the content you do not want indexing here.");


As long as the visibilty is invoked by a user action (i.e. clicking a button) this will not be considered as cloaking.

You may also be able to use a modal box like Facebox. I'm really not sure if this will fit in with your format but it will solve the indexing problem.

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@Murphy175

It may depend on what type of search results, and I think it also depends on the search engine.

From what I can tell, the techniques outlined here only work for the 'Google Custom Search' tool (results within the site, not results on Google).

Also, I can't recall exactly how but I think Yahoo has a method that let's you apply a class to an element (i.e. something like <p class="yahoo-no-index">) to have it excluded from crawling.

I doubt that's exactly what you are looking for but perhaps it'll be helpful.

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@Kaufman445

One way I found here, is using an <iframe> and blocking the URL in robots.txt.

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