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Can I tell Google to Ignore Parts of a Page?
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Hi all, I was wondering if there was some sort of html trick that I could use to selectively tell a search engine to ignore texts on certain parts of a page.
Thanks!
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Hi Charles
There's actually a question that has a few answers and ideas to it located here. Check that out - there's some pretty good stuff there. Hope this helps out a bit!
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