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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:22:09+00:00

Say that I write an article or document about a certain topic, but the

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Say that I write an article or document about a certain topic, but the content is meant for readers with certain prior knowledge about the topic. To help people who don’t have the ‘required’ background information, I would like to add a note to the top of the page with an explanation and possibly a link to some reference material.

Here’s an example:

Using The Best Product in the World to Create World Peace

Note: This article assumes you are already familiar with The Best Product in the World. To learn more about The Best Product in the World, please see the official web site.

The Best Product in the World …

Now, I don’t want the note to show up in Google search engine results, only the title and the content that follows the note. Is there any way I can achieve this?

Also, is it possible to do this without direct control over the entire HTML file and/or HTTP response, i.e. on blog hosted by a third party, like WordPress.com?

Update

Unfortunately, both the JavaScript solution and the HTML meta tag approach does not work on hosted WordPress.com blogs, since they don’t allow JavaScript in posts and they don’t provide access to edit the HTML meta tags directly.

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  1. You can build that portion of the content dynamically using Javascript.

    For example:

    <html> <body>   <div id='dynContent'>   </div>    Rest of the content here. </body> <script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>   var dyn = document.getElementById('dynContent');   dyn.innerHTML = 'Put the dynamic content here'; </script> </html>

    If you’re really stuck, you can just go old school and reference an image that has your text as part of it. It’s not particularly ‘accessibility-friendly’ though.

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