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With the Robots no-content tag, Webmasters can now mark parts of a page with a ‘robots-nocontent’ tag which will indicate to Yahoo slurp to recognize what parts of a page are unrelated to the main content and are only useful for visitors. TThis means that the terms contained in these special tagged sections as information for finding the page or for the abstract in the search results. Note: Using a “nocontent” tag to mark explicit sections of content is not considered “cloaking” because all of the content on the page is available to protect the relevance of the results.
Example:
div class=”robots-nocontent”
This is the navigational menu of the site and is common on all pages. It contains many terms and keywords not related to this site
span class=”robots-nocontent”
This is the site header that is present on all pages of the site and is not related to any particular page
p class=”robots-nocontent”
This is a boilerplate legal disclaimer required on each page of the site
div class=”robots-nocontent”
This is a section where ads are displayed on the page. Words that show up in ads may be entirely unrelated to the page contents
Basing on the updates on many websites, Yahoo will soon update its index for this new change and you will be able to see a shuffle in the ranking of the websites.
The ‘robots-nocontent‘ tag does not in any way affect how links are treated. All links will continue to be used to find targets and will carry attribution to the target if they do not have the ‘rel=nofollow‘ tag on them, whether or not they are inside a ‘robots-nocontent‘ section.