Use of multiple googleoff googleon tags in one page
robH
body content. Would this be the correct method?
<html>
..
<body>
<!--googleoff: all-->
#Exclude header and menu content on top
<!--googleon: all-->
#Main page content to be indexed
<!--googleoff: all-->
#Exclude content in footer
<!--googleon: all-->
</body>
</html>
Google's documentation only gives example of usage with pairs of
googleoff/on tags and they always open with googleoff and close with
googleon so the above would seem to be the way to exclude top and
bottom, but include the main page content. Would there be any issues
if we didn't use the final googleon given that there is no content
after it?
Rob
Dave Watts
> body content. Would this be the correct method?
>
> <html>
> ..
> <body>
>
> <!--googleoff: all-->
> #Exclude header and menu content on top
> <!--googleon: all-->
>
> #Main page content to be indexed
>
> <!--googleoff: all-->
> #Exclude content in footer
> <!--googleon: all-->
>
> </body>
> </html>
Yes, that's correct.
> Would there be any issues if we didn't use the final googleon given
> that there is no content after it?
It should work, but I've never tried it. I'd stick with the approach
outlined above.
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brianb
should find out. :-)
Brian
robH
flguy2
<!--googleon: index-->
#A bunch of stuff I wanted indexed
<!--googleoff: all-->
#Exclude some stuff from ALL in the the middle
<!--googleon: all-->
#Some other random stuff i still wanted indexed
<!--googleoff: index-->
#The start of some stuff I don't want indexed
JMarkham
On the question of nesting, I have not been able to get nesting to work at all; my experience being that those tags seem to require existence in matching pairs to be effective (e.g. a googleoff:index paried with a googleon:index). In your example, also, you start with a googleon, which won't work. The off/on tags are an exclusion method, so you begin with turning indexing off, then turn it back on again later. The above example, edited so it will work is:
#A bunch of stuff I wanted indexed - indexing automatically starts, so you don't need to turn it on
<!--googleoff: all-->
#Exclude some stuff from ALL in the the middle
<!--googleon: all-->
#Some other random stuff i still wanted indexed
<!--googleoff: index-->
#The start of some stuff I don't want indexed
JMarkham
Kathy
Right now, we are not indexing right or left navigation but would like to grab the URL's to add to the index? If we let it go, it will grab the right/left nav and put it in the snippet/summary. Can we use the googleoff:snippet googleon:snippet without too much issue or should we use the googleoff:all googleon:all?
JMarkham
Unless you want the anchor text to be associated with the target page, googleoff: all / googleon: all would be the best choice. In almost all cases, any anchor text that should be searchable should also be present on the target page.
JMarkham