Comments on: Preventing indexing of specific contents within a page http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/ Search Engine Optimization Thoughts, Ideas and experiments. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:37:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1-beta1 hourly 1 By: Egor http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/comment-page-1/#comment-671 Egor Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:50:21 +0000 http://www.pedrosttau.com/seo/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/#comment-671 Hi there been surfing the net for Search Engine Optimization Conference and found your blog reg ing indexing of specific contents within a page at Pedro Sttau. You relly know your stuff! I\'d like to see more posts here. Will definitely bookmark this one and come back. Hi there been surfing the net for Search Engine Optimization Conference and found your blog reg ing indexing of specific contents within a page at Pedro Sttau. You relly know your stuff! I\’d like to see more posts here. Will definitely bookmark this one and come back.

]]> By: admin http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/comment-page-1/#comment-15 admin Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:04:11 +0000 http://www.pedrosttau.com/seo/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/#comment-15 I disagree. I just think thart the reverse logic seems more practical. I disagree. I just think thart the reverse logic seems more practical.

]]> By: WebStractions http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/comment-page-1/#comment-12 WebStractions Tue, 29 May 2007 15:59:10 +0000 http://www.pedrosttau.com/seo/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/#comment-12 <i>But wouldn’t that be a bit overwhelming since maybe 98% of the page is content that we want indexed?</i> Don't confuse indexing of page content with following links. Links will always be followed unless you use the rel="nofollow" extension. It is easier to identify content than the other way around. As an example, the content on this page starts with the Title of the post and ends right before the section that I am typing this reply in. The rest of your page is non-content, correct? If you have links in the sidebar that may be related to this post, then you would wrap that with a tag to identify it as related content. My reasoning is that it is easier to implement (and understand). But wouldn’t that be a bit overwhelming since maybe 98% of the page is content that we want indexed?

Don’t confuse indexing of page content with following links. Links will always be followed unless you use the rel=”nofollow” extension.

It is easier to identify content than the other way around. As an example, the content on this page starts with the Title of the post and ends right before the section that I am typing this reply in. The rest of your page is non-content, correct?

If you have links in the sidebar that may be related to this post, then you would wrap that with a tag to identify it as related content.

My reasoning is that it is easier to implement (and understand).

]]> By: admin http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/comment-page-1/#comment-10 admin Tue, 29 May 2007 01:17:27 +0000 http://www.pedrosttau.com/seo/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/#comment-10 Webstractions, just checked out your blog and read your post, and I must admit, you raise a hell of a good point. Webstractions, just checked out your blog and read your post, and I must admit, you raise a hell of a good point.

]]> By: admin http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/comment-page-1/#comment-9 admin Tue, 29 May 2007 01:07:07 +0000 http://www.pedrosttau.com/seo/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/#comment-9 But wouldn't that be a bit overwhelming since maybe 98% of the page is content that we want indexed? But wouldn’t that be a bit overwhelming since maybe 98% of the page is content that we want indexed?

]]> By: WebStractions http://www.pedrosttau.com/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/comment-page-1/#comment-8 WebStractions Mon, 28 May 2007 22:14:50 +0000 http://www.pedrosttau.com/seo/preventing-indexing-of-a-specific-content-within-a-page/#comment-8 My personal opinion is that Yahoo did not think this through. Using a Class attribute to relay information to a robot is wrong -- semantically and technically. While the microformat for "nofollow" is viable as a Webmaster/Blogger tool, there needs to be Standard without using classes, attributes and other confusing (oft misleading) forms of communication. My <a href="http://www.webstractions.com/news/2007/05/yahoo-robots-nocontent-another-shade-of.html" rel="nofollow">proposal</a> is a natural progession into the Body of the Html -- a <robots attr="value"> tag. And instead of marking up what is not "content", simply markup what is. 'The' content of the page normally starts with an <H1> tag and proceeds from there ... does it not? My personal opinion is that Yahoo did not think this through. Using a Class attribute to relay information to a robot is wrong — semantically and technically.

While the microformat for “nofollow” is viable as a Webmaster/Blogger tool, there needs to be Standard without using classes, attributes and other confusing (oft misleading) forms of communication.

My proposal is a natural progession into the Body of the Html — a <robots attr=”value”> tag. And instead of marking up what is not “content”, simply markup what is. ‘The’ content of the page normally starts with an <H1> tag and proceeds from there … does it not?

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