By nsolop on

Hi all, I'm facing a problem related to SEO and the blocks on the sidebar of the template of one of my Drupal Sites. The problem is that no matter what page Google bot index from my site it always "see" first the block and then the content. What's the problem with this? that no matter what you search at google the result it's always the block on google's results page.

Do you know how can I prevent Google form indexing my blocks?

Thanks in advance.

Nicolas Solop
Buenos Aires, Argentina

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Skrea’s picture

Skrea commented

Hey, I'm having the same problem. I had a quick search of the forums and the Meta tags module seems like a possiblity but I'm not sure it does what I'm looking for.There must be a standard fix for this, what have other people done to get around it?

yan’s picture

yan commented

It could also have to do with the order your content appears in your html code. It's possible that the blocks sit on top of the rest and then are moved to a different place using css. Check your theme (page.tpl.php) for that. (just a guess)

jscoble’s picture

jscoble commented

using CSS to adjust how the search engine 'sees' your page would be the best solution. Use lynx or another text browser to see your page as a search engine would 'see' it. You can also try Lynx Viewer[delorie.com] instead but they recommend you use lynx for the best results also.

This is also helpful for creating pages that are more accessible to the visually impaired.

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nsolop commented

Tried with Lynx, and it "sees" the page the way I want....don't know what could be causing this. Do you know any document on how can I manage this with CSS? I'm a newbie on this subject.

Thanks in advance.
Nicolas Solop
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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altparty commented

It seems (in my case) that Google no longer uses Meta Description for display on the search engine result pages. Instead real page content is being used. And that's our problem. Because the first content the search robot finds is block content. And most of the time this is not what the main subject of the page is about.

How can I exclude blocks from being indexed by the search robots?

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okday commented

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thank you.