Publisher Insider #70: Google On How To Block Parts Of Content On A Page
Don't you find it incredibly frustrating when you intentionally hide a portion of your content to encourage readers to subscribe, but then search engines disregard this and index it? Unfortunately, there still isn't a foolproof method to prevent specific page sections from being indexed. Nevertheless, there are clever techniques you can implement to mitigate this issue.?
Hacks To Block Parts of Content On A Page
Google's Gary Illyes shares some tips and tricks on how to safeguard specific content, a section of a webpage meant to remain hidden from readers—from appearing in search results.?
He pointed out that crawlers will download whatever bytes a server gives them. To ensure that this does not happen, he highlighted two techniques to achieve this. Firstly, by putting the specific section in JavaScript that's disallowed for crawling. However, he advised exercising caution when employing these strategies.
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