searchengineland.com — Yahoo has rolled out a new attribute for HTML tags allow you to prevent parts of a page from being indexed. Want it to focus only on your body copy, rather than navigational crud. The new robots-nocontent attribute is the way to go. Will Google follow suit?
May 2, 2007 View in Crawl 4
Closed AccountMay 3, 2007
This is idiotic. Hasn't anyone heard of rel="nofollow" ? Look it up, I'm not going to waste any more time than this.
insovietrussiaMay 3, 2007
Be careful what you say about SEOs. Digg is rife with em.
toggoMay 3, 2007
I'd have thought it would be easier to specify the relevant content rather than the stuff that you didn't want to be indexed.
dannysullivanMay 3, 2007
That's a good point -- why not tag what you DO want included. I talked with Yahoo about this. Here's the problem. By default, normally everything gets indexed. So if you flag something as YES, does that mean everything else should be treated as no? Or if you flag somethings yes, some things no, what happens to the things that people will forget to flag? If you treat them as YES also, then you really have no need for a YES attribute.
auraMay 3, 2007
What's wrong with the currently used < ! -- NOINDEX -- > < ! -- /NOINDEX -- > HTML comments i've seen sites using?We don't need search engines adding more standards, we just need them to follow the ones we already have.