05-03-2007, 11:02 AM
Quote:For over a decade, search engines have supported standards allowing you to prevent pages from being spidered or included within a search index. Today, Yahoo now supports a new twist -- a way to flag that part of your page shouldn't be included in an index. It's called the robots-nocontent tag.
Many search marketers have long struggled with the problem that the "core" content of a web page -- the main body copy or article -- can often seemed drowned out from a text analytics perspective by all the clutter around the content. That clutter is often ads, navigational links, cross promotion material and other stuff used in page templates.
The new robots-nocontent tag now allows you to tell Yahoo to ignore the clutter...
full article: http://searchengineland.com/070502-132315.php