Comments on: Nofollow Entire Div! http://developdaly.com/seo/nofollow-entire-div/ Web Design, WordPress, and SEO in Dallas, TX Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:43:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Patrick Daly http://developdaly.com/seo/nofollow-entire-div/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Patrick Daly Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:50:48 +0000 http://www.developdaly.com/?p=36#comment-11 Actually it sounds like you may be describing a different problem. What I was talking about what adding a rel=nofollow to all anchor tags within a specified DIV so bots wouldn't follow the links. However, the content within that DIV would still be indexed. It sounds like you're worried about duplicate content and you're wanting to prevent search engines from penalizing you. In this case, you don't need to do anything at all. Google won't penalize you unless your intent seems malicious: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359 If you just want to prevent one page from being indexed, then use the following meta tag on that page: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> Actually it sounds like you may be describing a different problem. What I was talking about what adding a rel=nofollow to all anchor tags within a specified DIV so bots wouldn’t follow the links. However, the content within that DIV would still be indexed.

It sounds like you’re worried about duplicate content and you’re wanting to prevent search engines from penalizing you. In this case, you don’t need to do anything at all. Google won’t penalize you unless your intent seems malicious: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359

If you just want to prevent one page from being indexed, then use the following meta tag on that page:

]]> By: Claus http://developdaly.com/seo/nofollow-entire-div/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Claus Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:31 +0000 http://www.developdaly.com/?p=36#comment-10 We actually have a similar issue where this would be very handy. We run our site in many different languages, but we do have one page which is in English across all language sites. We keep this in English because it is user generated. So is there a way where I can tell Google to ignore this section on the page? I do want the page to be indexed, but just not the one We actually have a similar issue where this would be very handy.
We run our site in many different languages, but we do have one page which is in English across all language sites. We keep this in English because it is user generated.
So is there a way where I can tell Google to ignore this section on the page? I do want the page to be indexed, but just not the one

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