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| skip nav link being indexed by google My skip navigation link, which should be hidden from normal browsers, but displayed by screen readers, are being indexed by google. The skip nav link is designed to improve the accessibility of my site, but to my customer google listings are more important. The following is the description for my site that turns up on google: Rayman: DS. ... Skip to content..... Here is the html for the skip navigation link: <body> <a href="#content" class="hide" accesskey="2">Skip to content</a> As you can see it's at the top of the page body, so google thinks it's important. It's hidden using display:none and I'm aware that this isn't the best way to do that as screen readers also ignore it, but the alternatives don't get around the problem with google. How can I hide my skip nav link from users of internet explorer, mozilla etc., and from google, but display it to screen readers? Any hints would be gratefully received.      |
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| Re: skip nav link being indexed by google On 16 May 2005 06:50:01 -0700, "Olly" <osecluna@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >My skip navigation link, which should be hidden from normal browsers, >but displayed by screen readers, are being indexed by google. > >The skip nav link is designed to improve the accessibility of my site, >but to my customer google listings are more important. > >The following is the description for my site that turns up on google: > >Rayman: DS. ... Skip to content..... > > >Here is the html for the skip navigation link: > ><body> > ><a href="#content" class="hide" accesskey="2">Skip to content</a> > >As you can see it's at the top of the page body, so google thinks it's >important. It's hidden using display:none and I'm aware that this isn't >the best way to do that as screen readers also ignore it, but the >alternatives don't get around the problem with google. > >How can I hide my skip nav link from users of internet explorer, >mozilla etc., and from google, but display it to screen readers? > >Any hints would be gratefully received. Are these "screen sc****r" type screen readers, or can they maybe make use of something in a <link ...> tag in the header? |
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| Re: skip nav link being indexed by google Olly wrote: > > How can I hide my skip nav link from users of internet explorer, > mozilla etc., and from google, but display it to screen readers? Cloaking should do it. BTW did you try a Description Metatag? ---------------------- http://www.abcseo.com/ |
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| Re: skip nav link being indexed by google Olly wrote: > > How can I hide my skip nav link from users of internet explorer, > mozilla etc., and from google, but display it to screen readers? Cloaking should do it. BTW did you try a Description Metatag? ---------------------- http://www.abcseo.com/ |
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| Re: skip nav link being indexed by google "Olly" <osecluna@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in news:1116251401.115866.318020@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com: > My skip navigation link, which should be hidden from normal browsers, > but displayed by screen readers, are being indexed by google. > > The skip nav link is designed to improve the accessibility of my site, > but to my customer google listings are more important. > > The following is the description for my site that turns up on google: > > Rayman: DS. ... Skip to content..... > > > Here is the html for the skip navigation link: > > <body> > > <a href="#content" class="hide" accesskey="2">Skip to content</a> > > As you can see it's at the top of the page body, so google thinks it's > important. It's hidden using display:none and I'm aware that this > isn't the best way to do that as screen readers also ignore it, but > the alternatives don't get around the problem with google. > > How can I hide my skip nav link from users of internet explorer, > mozilla etc., and from google, but display it to screen readers? Do you have a meta description tag of a reasonable length and a DMoz listing? One or the other is currently likely to be used instead of a page snippet for most things, so that will help. If Google insists on using a page snippet, can you give it content elsewhere which makes more attractive snippage? For example, could you put the unique heading for each page (which is unique so therefore should not need to be skipped) before the skip link in the code? For example, on the Virgin Megastores site (http://www.virginmegastores.co.uk/invt/6279**) there is a skip to content link, but it's not being displayed if you http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=rayman+ds+virgin because there is more relevant content elsewhere on the page - Google is using that instead They could probably help this further by providing a longer meta description tag. (I don't know if this is the site you mean and it doesn't matter - I'm using it as an example I found by googling 'Rayman ds "skip to content"') Victoria -- Clare Associates Ltd http://www.clareassoc.co.uk/ -- |
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| Re: skip nav link being indexed by google Olly wrote: > <a href="#content" class="hide" accesskey="2">Skip to content</a> > > As you can see it's at the top of the page body, so google thinks it's > important. Nah, Google puts it in the snippet because it couldn't find anything relevant for the given query (or Skip to content is considered context for the result). If you provide a meta description tag the problem might go away. -- John Perl SEO tools: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Experienced (web) developer: http://castleamber.com/ Get a SEO report of your site for just 100 USD: http://johnbokma.com/websitedesign/seo-expert-help.html |
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