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Does anyone know how to supress the inclusion of this text from the results page?
Thanks,
Chris
If you don't use the NOSCRIPT content to put non-scripted alternatives for accessing your content then it is very useful for people to see that a page won't work before they visit it.
This is one of the good things about Google. :)
ChrisXenon,
Google and many other robots analyze sites from a "noscript" standpoint, so they
may not see your scripted sections at all. ciml's suggestion to put useful
content in the <noscript> section is a good one. Provide a primitive or
scaled-back version of the function that your script provides there. With
pop-ups and malicious scripts in abundance these days, it is a very good idea to
make sure your site does its job (i.e. sells, informs, advises, etc.) even if
the visitor has disabled scripting.
Otherwise, if you have no non-scripted content at all, then the bot is going to
see your page body as blank.
The non-scripting visitor may not be stupid or have a hopelessly-outdated
browser; He/she may actually be running a state-of-the art browser, but be a
very wise and cautious person - someone who does not visit "new" unknown sites
with scripting enabled initially...
It is a good idea to not berate or inconvenience your site's visitors because
they ELECTED not to enable scripting until they are comfortable in the
neighborhood. Other than being good "salesmanship" and being more friendly
and polite, it also keeps your SE listing from looking funny... (I also get a
kick out of the amusing <noframes> stuff you see for much the same reason)
Jim
I am familiar with the issues surrounding scripted content, except the one about it appearing in the SEPRS lsiting :-)
I've now done the following:
1. I've deleted the page comtaining this NOSCRIPT tag, and replaced it with another, but I understand that the cached one will be in the index for a month, with it's "don't visit" summary. Tough luck, I guess.
2. On the new page, I moved the NOSCRIPT section much lower in the page.
3. I also placed a small link instead of a large description. When they click the link they'll go to the description.
Hopefully these measures will keep the NOSCRIPT warning out of the SERPS listing.
I'll remove the need for javascript on all but a very few pages over time, but this is a big task.
Chris
"How do I keep the NOSCRIPT content out of the SERPS lisitng?".
Well, the short answer is, if you want the page listed at all, you can't keep
it out. You can move it lower in the page, giving the engine something more
important to show first, but if the noscript-tagged text matches the search
well, it will show in the SERPs.
On Google specifically, you can try the "gogglebot nosnippet" meta tag. I don't
remember the exact syntax, but do a site search here and also look at Google's
webmaster help page. This will prevent Google from extracting and displaying
a snippet of closely-matching text from your page in response to a search.
Jim
Good work-around!
Jim
