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excluding drop down menus from search

         

manomahendran

6:35 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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How can I exclude google from Indexing the content from the drop down menus.
e.g
<option value="http://www.aricept.com*_blank">Aricept&reg; (donepezil hydrochloride tablets)</option>
<option value="http://www.bextra.com*_blank">Bextra&reg; (valdecoxib)</option>
<option value="http://www.celebrex.com*_blank">Celebrex&reg; (celecoxib)</option>

If I search for "Aricept", the page contaning this dropdown shows up which I do not want.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
M

espeed

6:39 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If you don't want a bot to index a page, put the page in your robots.txt file. For more info, see: [robotstxt.org...]

manomahendran

6:53 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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thanks for the quick response. I should I have been more specific about drop downs.
I want the page to be crawled but not the drop down in the page.
Thanks
M

MeditationMan

6:54 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Exclude the pages that the links point to. (Sorry, but that's all I can thing of. Probably not very helpful!)

manomahendran

7:16 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for your response. Search results shows this page with the dropdown for searches that are not part of the page (except the drop down), so it is a little misleading for the users when they click on the result and see no information about thier search except in the drop down which is hidden for the user.
Thanks,
M

espeed

7:17 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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You could write some code to check the user-agent, and if it is a known bot, don't output the drop-down menu.

Timona

9:25 pm on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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My suggestion would be to put the box in javascript. Per what I know googlebot does not follow that.

manomahendran

8:17 am on Jan 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Thanks Timona
I included the Drop Downs as a javascript file and it worked.

gilli

8:27 am on Jan 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Have you tried:

<META name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,NO FOLLOW">