Suggestion for Google: No Follow text

[Johan007]

What would be useful is if we could "nofollow" a section of text in a page using a something like <span rel=nofollow>Text</span>. This is becuase often I add things onto pages such as my portfolio like websites I have created and I do not want my pages coming up.

I can not simply remove the page becuase it is often a link from the navigation.

[koan]

What's wrong with using robots.txt?

[jimbeetle]

Or meta noindex?

[tedster]

The way I understand this suggestion is to allow just certain parts of the page to be skipped but the rest to be indexed -- similar to the "section targeting" already in use on adsense pages.

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
Text section here that the algo will skip
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Something like this would also be good for marking off those "boilerplate" sections used across many pages of a site, such as legal disclaimers etc. Unfortunately, nothing like that yet exists -- probably because of concern for poor use, misuse and abuse.

[kaled]

Whilst nofollow could be open to abuse, noindex applied to an html block would be a good idea - GoogleGuy said as much in a reply to a comment I made a couple of years ago.

Kaled.

[futureX]

not indexing text blocks would be too open to abuse, just <span rel="noindex"> on anything but keywords and all google indexes is your keywords, but your visitors see different.