I’m nearing completion of a website redesign and im looking for a solution to notify regular visitors to the site to refresh the page to update the site as it will still show the old design (we are using browser leverage cache). I had a simple php script that displays a message box at the top of the page, but the contents were indexed by the search engines and effected listings. From what I have read so far, you cannot hide text from the search engines, if its their, they will include it in their crawl?
I could do a simple image, but thats not ideal.
Does anyone know of a jquery popup on first page load that can display a message and wont get indexed? Something very simple and light that wont put visitors off. Sorry of this has been asked before or there are readily solutions available, I couldn’t find any, may be I’m asking the wrong question?
This might work – create a new page for the message and the following in the
<head>:and load it in an
iframein a lightbox.using-robots-meta-tag