I think the simplest method would be to use an image instead of text (without an ALT tag) -----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:58:32 -0500 From: Charles Dobie <cdobie@superaje.com> Subject: [FreeHelp] Can I exclude a block of text from Google search? To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <201111132058.pADKwbUR000241@mail.storm.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hello listers, I know about excluding a complete page from Google search by using (meta name="robots" content="noindex") in the page's html header, but what I want to do is exclude only a block of text from a page or pages. 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") Thanks, Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com ------------------------------