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How Should I Deal With A Repeated Legal Disclaimer?

         

Planet13

8:04 pm on Jul 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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I have a photo gallery where I am encouraging people to use the photos on their site in return for a link back.

Only problem is that the legal mumbo jumbo telling them that they have to keep the copyright info and links back intact, etc., will end up being repeated on every page right below the image.

Will google care that this more-or-less same exact block of text is going to show up on about 80 pages? Is it something I should worry about? Especially since it is a photo gallery, there will be very little descriptive, non-repetitive text accompanying it?

And if you feel it would be best not to have it on all those pages, is there any viable solution to this? Because of the way the CMS is set up, I don't think I am able to call it in an iframe...

Thanks in advance for helping me brainstorm.

tedster

8:54 pm on Jul 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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How about including the disclaimer in an iframe?

netmeg

9:00 pm on Jul 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Can't you just make one disclaimer and put a link to it on every page? That's what I do with my republishing stuff.

ken_b

9:07 pm on Jul 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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I use an image (gif) to put a disclaimer on a bunch of my pages.

Planet13

9:57 pm on Jul 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Thanks all for the suggestions.

@ tedster:

How about including the disclaimer in an iframe?


I am not sure if I have the technical skills to do it. It's part of a CMS system and I am not really sure how much of the template I will have to hack away and put into the iframe.

But the more important question is whether google is still NOT indexing content in an iframe.

@ netmeg:

Can't you just make one disclaimer and put a link to it on every page? That's what I do with my republishing stuff.


Yeah, but you are forgetting that you actually know what you are doing, while I, on the other hand, am clueless :)

In all seriousness, I could probably put SOME of it in a popup window. Because I ask them to copy and paste the copyright notice / rights reserved code along with the code for hotlinking the image, I kind of have them "bundled" together. I guess I will have to see about separating them.

But from a "visual" standpoint, putting all the code in a popup would be preferable, now that I think about it.

@ Ken_b:

I use an image (gif) to put a disclaimer on a bunch of my pages.


That might work for the disclaimer part. I think I am going to have to separate the disclaimer from the hotlinking code (which is dynamic).

BTW: If they DON'T use my copyright notice that has a link to my site, and just hotlink to my image, does google consider that a "link" and give it any value in terms of Page Rank?