Exclude Footer from Google search results

[siobhan]

I do a lot of Google site searches on WordPress.org, for example, I might use the following search string on Google "site:http://wordpress.org Kubrick" to find out information about the Kubrick theme. Sometimes I'll drill down further to search just the news blog or the support forums.

I encounter a problem, however, when I search for any keywords which are contained within the footer. The search string "site:http://wordpress.org bbpress" brings up all of the pages with the word bbpress, which is every page:

In order to make search results more relevant, I suggest following Google's advice for excluding boilerplate content: ​https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/2364585?hl=en

From Google:

If your pages have regions containing boilerplate content that's not relevant to the main content of the page, you can identify it using the nocontent class attribute. When Google Custom Search sees this tag, we'll ignore any keywords it contains and won't take them into account when calculating ranking for your Custom Search engine. (We'll still follow and crawl any links contained in the text marked nocontent.) To use the nocontent class attribute, you'll need to tag the boilerplate content, and then modify your context file. This tells Google that you're using the nocontent class attribute.

[joostdevalk]

This won't fix it for Google searches, only for a custom site search engine...

[SergeyBiryukov]

Removing 'needs-patch' from components that are not open sourced yet, to help focus on tickets that actually need a patch.

[ocean90]

Looks like this isn't an issue anymore, closing as worksforme.