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Old 08-09-2008, 12:29 PM
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Default Re: Block spiders from PART of a page?

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Originally Posted by davebarnes View Post
Here is the page in question: Creative Loafing Tampa | Food & Drink | Features | It took a Village

Here is the problem.
I want the search engines to focus on indexing the contents of: the main article and the 3 blocks on the right-hand side as these are all about the restaurant being reviewed and other food and drink.
But, right now, the spiders also see all pull-down lists in the box at the top. These items are detracting from the FOCUS of the article.

In other words, I want the spider to visit and leave with thoughts of "wine and homogenous American fine dining" in its head and not with "Ethiopian, Filipino, Fondue, French" and all the other lists contained in the Ajax construction.
Dave, no need to worry about that. See here what the bots see here:
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But I am very concerned about the use of display: none. I am sure you are not trying to deceive the SE but it is very possible that they will perceive it that way.

Here is a tool to check this out: Search engine SPAM detector
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