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Yahoo! Introducing Robots-Nocontent Tag

May 3rd, 2007

Web pages often include headers, footers, navigational sections, repeated boilerplate text, copyright notices, ad sections, or dynamic content that is useful to users — but not to search engines. Webmasters can now apply the “robots-nocontent” attribute to indicate to search engines any content that is extraneous to the main unique content of the page. Yahoo! Search observes the class=”robots-nocontent” present on XHTML elements, such as div, span, and all others.

When a “robots-nocontent” tag is used to mark a section of content on a web page, Yahoo! will not use the terms contained in that section as information for finding the page or for the abstract of that page in search results. Using a “robots-nocontent” tag to mark explicit sections of content is not considered “cloaking” because all the content on the page is available to the Yahoo! Crawler.
More details on the “robots-nocontent” tag can be found on the Yahoo! Search Help site.

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