Googlebot and other spiders indexing my left sidebar

  • I noticed that googlebot is reading and indexing the content of the left sidebar and and not the center content (title of posts etc).

    I have tried this fix:

    Place the sidebar call after The Loop in your theme files and then use CSS to float your post content right or absolutely position your sidebar on the left.

    Because the spider bots read the page markup from the top down. So if your left sidebar lies above your post content in the markup, the sidebar will be indexed first. If, on the other hand, your left sidebar appears below your post content in the markup but is positioned left by CSS, the bots will index your post content first.

    But when I do that it throws the page nav (bottom of center content) and the footer out of wack.

    Is there not an easier fix to get googlebot and other bots to skip the left sidebar and only index the content?

    website: https://www.microbikinigirls.org/

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  • Use ‘Google Webmaster Tools’ and a sitemap.xml, and also include the tag ‘rel=nollow’ to any links that you do not wish too be indexed that are within the links inluded in the sitemap.

    Thread Starter digitalx77

    (@digitalx77)

    Hi thx for the reply,

    I have do that, but google is still indexing my page from the content that is contained in the left sidebar.

    What plugins are you using and what SEO is included with theme?

    Thread Starter digitalx77

    (@digitalx77)

    Hi , I have been able to change the call for the sidebars to below the loop and it changes what the spiders see to the center content, the only problem is in doing that I have to modify some additional css classes for the page nav at the bottom and the footer as they are not displaying correctly now.

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