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John Kenedy
John Kenedy

Reputation: 574

How to Exclude indexing menu in Google Custom Search

Hi I am using Google Custom Search for searching content in my website.

However when searching a word, google can't exclude the menu from the page, for example http://www.innosia.com/Home/ArticleSearch?q=efore&sitesearch=innosia.com

If you see efore, every page will show up because each page contains a link to Efore page. How do I tell Google to exclude the link area (left and right menu) and only index the title and content area?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1937

Answers (2)

raab
raab

Reputation: 46

The accepted answers (Jeremiah) link referred to adding although this no longer works as explained here: https://support.google.com/programmable-search/thread/16487981?hl=en. In this answer there is also a workaround to your issue.

Currently there are no quick easy methods to hide content within a page in google search, only to hide a whole page.

More reading here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-no-block-indexing-parts-pages-29144.html

Is there a way to prevent Googlebot from indexing certain parts of a page?

Upvotes: 1

Jeremiah
Jeremiah

Reputation: 34

I was looking for the same information... It took me a while but I found this in the Google Custom Search documentation. This Google article explains exactly how to acheive what you want:

http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2364585&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=4iiarmion6fw&cbrank=1

Enjoy!

Upvotes: 1

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