Timeline for Google crawling privacy: how to protect customer names from being indexed
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 13:16 | history | edited | unor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 6:23 | comment | added | Goyllo | I heard about cloaking, but I don't think if you block only few parts of your site then you get penalty, G sometimes come to your site with different user-agent, and they check how many things you've hide from their main bot, if its very small then it's fine. Recently too many wp blogs block wp-admin directory where most of plugins(js) and css files are stored, that time G said please don't block those files, so we can understand your layout better, they didn't said otherwise you will get penalty. Also banner, ads, social media plugins(like addthis, sharethis) also hide from Gbot. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 16:37 | comment | added | Jonathan | I've heard that Google penalises those who hide their js files, in order to prevent abuse of this technique. I'm wondering if the same could be true of iframes - but perhaps that's not abusable in the same way as you can only add by iframe, not remove. Thanks for the link - that pointed me to stackoverflow.com/questions/11320407/… which is promising. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 16:22 | answer | added | Simon Hayter | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 11:46 | comment | added | Goyllo | Check stephen answer on that if you're fine to use iframe, but I am using javascript to render social media icons for sharing links, and I block that JS from robots.txt. I don't think there is any problem if you just hide only name or some icons. I don't go with delay option, because Google will wait for script execution if it is not blocked via robots.txt. And delay option with js blocked is not necessary at all. | |
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 11:35 | history | asked | Jonathan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |