Asking Google not to index only A PART of the page

Is this possible?

[hanan_cohen]

Shalom,

I am about to add text ads to my site. Not Google Ads, my ads.

Since different ads are shown whenever the page is displayed, I don't want the text of the ads to be indexed and found in SERPS.

I don't want people to search for a keyword, click a link to my page and come to a page without the content they were looking for.

Is this possible?

Is my request stupid?

Thanks,

Hanan Cohen
***Love and Peace***

[requiem]

If you include the ads with a javascript you will keep them out of the view of the spiders.

[kaled]

You might also consider cloaking (delivering different content to spiders) if you are using php or whatever.

See forum24 here on webmaster world

Kaled.

[Bobby]

Another possibility would be to put the stuff in an Iframe (or frame of any kind for that matter) and keep the Iframe page in a folder which you tell Google not to index (in your robots.txt)

[BigDave]

Your best option is to do as kaled suggests.

Even if your site is all HTML, PHP is still a good option as it is a scripting language that is *added* to a standard html page.

You just need to check for the googlebot UA (and those of other SE spiders) in a small script around your ad. This sort of "cloaking" is not the sort that will get you in trouble with a manual check of your site.

[g1smd]

Does that mean that the cached version at Google will be adless?

I assume so.