No Index Tag

How to -No Index- part pf page

[robinantill]

Hi,
I am trying to prevent part of my web pages being indexed and came across the following:-

To prevent part of a page from being indexed add the tag
<!-- FreeFind Begin No Index -->
before the section of the page to be ignored, and the tag
<!-- FreeFind End No Index -->
after the section of the page to be ignored. The spider, when it notices this tag, will prevent the text occurring between these tags from being included in the index.

Will this actually work?

What I am trying to do it to stop a re-direct link being indexed in the search engine. This would create a duplicate page with the web site which is being listed on my site.

I thought about using robots.txt but this would stop other pages which I want indexed. I try using rel="no follow" in the link but this won't work because the way the re-direct link works

<a href={TRACKLINKURL} class="reciplink" {EXTERNALLINKS}>{LINKTITLE}</a>

Any help would be appreciated.
This no-index part of the page would be great if I know if works.

OR will this only work with the FreeFind search engine whatever that is?

If so has anyone any idea how I can achieve what I am trying to do.

[Robin_reala]

You can't prevent a 'part' of a page from being indexed unless you write it out with Javascript (and even then that's not guarenteed to work in the future). If you want to stop indexing of entire pages then that's easy enough to do - use a robots.txt file to deny access. For example, given [youraddress...]

User-agent: *
Disallow: file.html

[tedster]

will this only work with the FreeFind search engine whatever that is?

FreeFInd offers a site search service, in contrast to a full web search. You're right - this is a proprietary feature of their service so webmasters can fine tune and tweak the site search for their pages.

[mad4]

I believe you can use the <noindex> tag within the body of the page to prevent indexing of certain parts.

eg
<noindex>
Don't index this test.
</noindex>

[harry_wales]

NOINDEX is a META tag attribute, and should be used in the META ROBOTS tag. It instructs a search engine NOT to index your page. The other option is the NOFOLLOW attribute which tells search engines that you do not vouch for the links on your page, so they should not be followed.

(If you have reciprocal links on someone elses site you should always check that they have not used this tag attribute, because if they have it will HARM your own sites ranking).