More Google-friendly nav code?

[Robert Lauriston]

The way things are now, there's no way to restrict a Google search to a particular board, since all the board names are in the source for every page.

Is there some way to flag the board nav table (div nav_tier3) as non-indexable?

That would probably draw more traffic to the site.

[Robert Lauriston]

I just started noticing a related problem: the content of "In the Boards" and so on is getting indexed along with the topics. So e.g. the following--

site:chowhound.com inurl:topics intitle:"San Francisco" choucroute

--turns up random topics that happened to have had a plug for a "Real Alsatian Choucroute" topic on the Toronto board when Google indexed them.

[Engineering]

You can execute very effective searches using google with the following as part your query:

site:www.chowhound.com inurl:topics :intitle:"San Francisco Bay Area" steak

That will limit searches to just topics about steak in the SF board.

[Robert Lauriston]

Thanks! That's perfect.