Question

There is much info about opposite situation, when people try to have stuff in HTML, that is visible to Google bots, but not visible to users, in my case, I need opposite thing – to hide some of the html from google bot. The question would be how?

Flash is not an answer,
Would prefer not to use fancy ajax things also (mainly because I need it right away, not on document ready),
Also robots.txt is not an answer, because it works on urls, not parts of the page.
Would any special css/simple javascript work, is any special html tag for this?

Answer 1

Maybe a base64 encoding server side and then decoding on the client side could work?

Code:

<!-- visible to Google -->
<p> Hi, Google Bot! </p>

<!-- not visible from here on -->
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write ("<?php echo base64_encode('<b>hey there, user</b>'); ?>");
</script>

How it looks to the bot:

<!-- visible to Google -->
<p> Hi, Google Bot! </p>

<!-- not visible from here on -->
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write (base64_decode("B9A985350099BC8913=="));
</script>