At 03:58 PM 11/13/2011, Charles Dobie wrote: >Here's the problem -- perhaps hundreds of pages on a website might >have, for example, "Text Copyright 2011 by John Doe". Therefore, >"John Doe" gets indexed on each page although John Doe is never >mentioned elsewhere on the page. So when someone googles "john doe", >there is a mass of hits, perhaps none of which are actually useful. > >Is there any way of declaring ("indexing off") yadda yadda ("indexing on") Insert the copyright notice on the page using a Server Side Include (SSI) The Google bot indexes the page as it is on the server. The SSI only appears on the page when compiled by a browser. Pat Asher