Is there a way to no index no follow sections on a page to avoid duplicative text issues?

[Spiral_Marketing]

I'm working on an event-related site where every blog post starts with an introductory header about the event and then a Call To Action at the end which gives info about the Registration Deadline. I'm wondering if there is something we can and should do to avoid duplicative content penalties. Should these go in a widget or is there some way to No Index, No Follow a section of text? Thanks!

[Mark.]

Hi,
Short answer: No you can’t hide a selection on a page from Google. If Google reaches your page it will crawl all of it. I personally wouldn’t worry that much about duplicate content here if it is only a small part of the page.

One solution could be to make an image for the returning content if this is possible. This way Google doesn’t crawl the text, but make sure you make the content visual. It is not userfriendly to put a lot of text in images.

[Asif.Dilshad]

This might help. https://www.hochmanconsultants.com/how-to-block-part-of-a-page-from-being-indexed-by-google-or-other-search-engines/ let me know if it doesn't work.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Karl,

Google doesn't mind a bit of content that is the same page on page - they have said so in the page. If the page requires that there is a bit of the content that is duplicated, as long as it serves a purpose, you will be absolutely fine.

Look at the pages and see if what is there would be considered beneficial to the page.

The issues for duplication tend to arise when you are copying huge swathes of text from one page to another, plagiarising others work or even spinning.

By what you have said, it sounds like you will be absolutely fine, but feel free to post an example here or PM it to me if you wish and I will happily take a look

-Andy