Allow/block Google from getting keywords from code snippets

Allow/block Google from getting keywords from code snippets - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about seo, google-search, keywords, to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Allow/block Google from getting keywords from code snippets.Problem :

I have a website for hosting my "Responsive Pagination" jQuery Plugin. As you imagine these pages have a lot of code blocks showing how to use different parts of my plugin. Now that my site has been online a couple of weeks I want to work hard to increase my page rank because I'm a few pages back even when searching for multiple directly relevant terms.

When looking at my "Content Keywords" section of Webmaster Tools, I see that most of my keywords are being pulled out of my code snippets, which are words that will likely never be searched:

(pagination occurrence count is 26, the rest are 10 or less)

Out of these words, only a few (pagination, responsive, dynamic, jquery, plugin) are relevant to the content as a whole. Yet since I use code example so much a lot of them are being pushed down.

Can I block Google from using these words as my keywords? Since I'd just be blocking some and not increasing others would it have any positive effect or just lose some potential search terms?

Solution :

The "content keywords" report is intended to monitor your site for spam. When hackers hack a site, they often add pages for "Viagra" or "Casino" related keywords.

If you see unexpected keywords in this report, then you have a problem with a hacked site and you need to take action. If you were the one that created the content with the keywords, there is no action you need to take.

To appear higher on this report, a keyword has to appear on a large number of pages on your site. The report takes into account how common words are on sites in general so that common words such as "the" do not generally appear.

If you want a keyword to appear higher, use it on more pages. If you want it to appear lower, use it on fewer pages. It does not appear to matter how many times on each page a keyword is used. I have tested this fairly straightforward relationship that is powering this report with my own websites.

Optimizing your keywords based on this report will not improve your site's search engine rankings. I've tested that as well. Even when I use a term on more pages and get it higher in this list, rankings for that term have not improved. Google uses other factors for ranking.

Based on my experiments, this report is only good for spam detection. Having words that you made up in this report should not negatively effect your site in any way.

If the issue about seo, google-search, keywords, is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.