googleoff index googleon index

by jp on January 17, 2005

Interesting thing I found today from HTML source:

<– googleoff: index –>
<– googleon: index –>

What’s the significance? Does this affect how google indexes the site, or is it purely for the site developer?

5 comments

I found this same tag on nbc.com

googleoff: all
and
googleon: all

What is this??

by Nate on 25 March, 2005 at 3:22 am. #

This code is used to tell the google search engine to start or stop indexing a bit of code on a page. The result is better search indexing for a site.

by Ted on 21 June, 2005 at 9:27 pm. #

By the seems of it, they have dymanic support for the robot meta tag. eg.

so if your page is set by the above tag and you want google not to index the links of a certain section of html. You would write…

aejw.com

You on again to restore the google bot to its previous state

by aejw on 21 July, 2005 at 4:57 pm. #

See it explained in:
http://www3.uwm.edu/search/info/onofftag.cfm
I guess it’s only for their “Google search appliance”, not for web pages in the wild.
–
Juan

by Juan Lanus on 23 January, 2006 at 11:36 pm. #

Yes, it’s just for the Google search appliance that you install as your own internal site search. It’s ignored by big Momma Google.

by Liam McGee on 8 August, 2007 at 8:43 am. #