Preventing some parts of the pages of a site from being indexed

Question

My website has links like:

<a href="messages.aspx">Messages<span>3</span></a>

Well google indexes these links as: Messages3

I have read some articles for preventing google from indexing some parts of the website like

<!--googleoff: index-->
<!--googleon: index>

tags but there are 2 problems:

1.This seems very odd to use lots of these tags and for a number

    <!--googleoff: index-->
      0
    <!--googleon: index>

2.I want to know is there a way or a rule that would work for all search engines like bing and yahoo too.

googleoff and googleon only works on Google Search Appliance, not normal search results, and for bing/yahoo nothing exists. You should also be aware that display results for users and different elements for search engines is a form of cloaking, which is obviously not permitted. You should tread carefully. It is however ok to hide content with authentication. — Simon Hayter, Sep 30 '15 at 10:25

Josip Ivic · Answer 1 · 2015-09-30T10:22:21.123

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Best way is to use robots.txt. It works for all search engines.

As the content concerned:

Sometimes, there's a certain piece of content on a webpage (or a persistent piece of content throughout a site) that you'd prefer search engines didn't see. In this event, clever use of iframes can come in handy. The HTML Inline Frame Element () represents a nested browsing context, effectively embedding another HTML page into the current page.

For better understanding, here's the picture.

edited Sep 30 '15 at 10:22

answered Sep 30 '15 at 09:56

Josip Ivic

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well, you didn't read the question well. I don't want to prevent a page from being indexed. I just want to leave some words, and numbers out. – Ashkan Mobayen Khiabani Sep 30 '15 at 10:13
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aaa, sorry, I misunderstood. I'll add some edits (i'm using iframes for content), I'll write you down in a minute. – Josip Ivic Sep 30 '15 at 10:17
iframe works for all search engines too :) – Josip Ivic Sep 30 '15 at 10:24
So, is this what you're searching for? – Josip Ivic Sep 30 '15 at 13:56

Preventing some parts of the pages of a site from being indexed

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