Youser in Siegen, NRW asks: “Is there a way to tell Google bots to exclude recurring words on a website such as ‘leave comment’ or ‘print page’ when indexing in order to improve the keyword density?”
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Youser in Siegen, NRW asks: “Is there a way to tell Google bots to exclude recurring words on a website such as ‘leave comment’ or ‘print page’ when indexing in order to improve the keyword density?”
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While it's a pain in the neck to see a forum page that has "Views", "Reads" or "Leave Comment" potentially a hundred times on the same page, Google is more likely to drive traffic to individual topic pages, which will likely only have those words once or twice.
So, as the number of actual detail pages increases, each of those detail pages will likely have the right balance of the subject related keywords, giving Google a good picture of the truly important keywords.
One keyword issue I recently discovered was that since the bylines are on every article, the author's names, the 12 months and the year were consistently at the top of the list of keywords shown on Webmaster Tools. I made a change to put tags like rel=author around the authors, so Google can at least distinguish the author's name from other keywords. Time will tell if that eventually removes them from the top of my keyword list.
I suppose this feature could be achived by using JavaScript to print text, as Google won't index that. Right?
Matt, I like your response, because it shows that you're neutral on your position on help for webmasters. (Involving Yahoo) Anyway, it stands out to me, that Google might want to adopt this feature… Imagine the storage-space the indexing would save on Google's servers. (Like ads included widgets that work dynamically) It might be worth looking in too.
Youser!
hmmm looking on webmastertools my page have the keywords "search" "category" on top Significance.
this words comes from some forms
Matt, in response to your comment about Yahoo's content targeting tag not being in common use… of course not, it is Yahoo. Who optimizes for Yahoo Search? If Google implemented it, you can bet it would see widespread adoption pretty quickly however. I know I've been wanting a tag like this for some time.
I believe taking out 'leave a comment' can be very important. As a webmaster I see people doing 'google search for operators' to find weaknesses in some of my clients older websites. From these searches and probes for weaknesses I get bad traffic. If I could block 'leave a comment' my clients would benefit until they have the funds to update the WYSIWYG back end.
Great question and thanks for all of the vids Matt!.