<noindex></noindex>

Can this hide certain content from SE's

[progdes]

I want to know whether content between the
<noindex> and </noindex> tags will be hidden from SE's.

If it can't what is the use of it (sorry for my ignorance)

Can anyone help me.

[seomike2003]

You could do a reverse cloak. Basically you have the text you don't want the spider to see as an include into the page. Then when a SE spider comes in you just don't call in the include.

I wonder what googles policies are on omitted content. LOL.

[mikeD]

this is quite an old idea to scam search engines like Google (was popular about 2-3 years ago). I think it would just get you banned with Google's new filters.

[g1smd]

When people refer to the "noindex tag" in posts, what they probably meant was:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

That is what comes of people who don't know their tags from their attributes.

[pageoneresults]

Here is a previous discussion on the

<noindex>

tag...

<noindex>

Tag and Search Engines [webmasterworld.com]

[progdes]

Thanks for the speedy reply, but does these tags stop
search engines from seeing javascript and css seeing as javascript and css code is not liked by SE's

[pageoneresults]

No, the tag is specific to atomz and is not valid HTML.

[progdes]

i've seen the following site using these tags
and obviously it does something for them

[edited by: oilman at 5:15 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2004]
[edit reason] no specifics please [/edit]

[Beyond]

That tag used to be used by Infoseek, and is also used by some on-site search engines like XAV.