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xmental
11-10-2005, 01:27 PM
I have commercial sites with meta tags that are customized for a broad audience with relivant terms, phrases, etc. I get good traffic. Now, I want to add a site specific search tool with specific terms, phrases, etc. that are quite different from the Web-wide input. Is there a way to support two different types of search on the same HTML pages?

I want Web search engines/spiders to ignore the specific information that I want users within my site to find.

I want on-site user searches to ignore the meta tag input that Google finds.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

JohnW
11-10-2005, 09:01 PM
>is there a way to support two different types of search on the same HTML pages?

I would start by looking for a site search tool that can be modified, maybe something open source. Then maybe a custom tag for the special words:

<META NAME="special-words" CONTENT="0001,0002,whatever,etc">

The search engines will ignore this tag.

xmental
11-10-2005, 09:42 PM
Thanks JohnW, I'll explore that path.