ZOOMSTOP and ZOOMRESTART

[crichard]

Hi,

I'm wondering if I am using the ZOOMSTOP and ZOOMRESTART tags correctly. On my site, I have video players. Some videos have chapters. These chapters are navigated using anchors with querystring parameters. I would like to exclude these chapter buttons (anchors) from the index. Here is the relevant portion of code:

<!-- CHAPTERS --><!--ZOOMSTOP-->
                        <div id="vidChapters" class="span-3 row-start">
                            <div class="modularControlsVertical">
                                <div class="modularPlay_en" ></div>
                                <ul>
                                    <li><div><a id="cue_17_1" data-cuepoint="0" href='?olvPlayer=0s&module=cue_17_1'><span>Overview</span></a></div></li>
                                    <li><div><a id="cue_17_2" data-cuepoint="141022" href='?olvPlayer=141.022s&module=cue_17_2'><span>What's cool about the job</span></a></div></li>
                                    <li><div><a id="cue_17_3" data-cuepoint="187020" href='?olvPlayer=187.02s&module=cue_17_3'><span>Training</span></a></div></li>
                                    <li><div><a id="cue_17_4" data-cuepoint="244014" href='?olvPlayer=244.014s&module=cue_17_4'><span>The first few years</span></a></div></li>
                                    <li><div class='last'><a id="cue_17_5" data-cuepoint="329022" href='?olvPlayer=329.022s&module=cue_17_5'><span>Rewarding experiences</span></a></div></li>
                                </ul>
                            </div>  
                        </div><!--ZOOMRESTART-->

Unfortunately, this does not seem to work. For example, this URL is in my search results: URL: http://webdev.multimediaservices.ca/en/job/artilleryofficer-17?olvPlayer=187.02s&module=cue_17_3

How can I fix this? Thank you.

[Ray]

<!--ZOOMSTOP--> and <!--ZOOMRESTART--> prevents content from being indexed. This means the actual words on the page. It will still allow the links to be followed. This is typically useful for navigation menus and such, where you do not want the words "Home" and "FAQ" to be indexed on every page, but you DO want the links to be followed and crawled.

If you want to specify links to not be followed, you should use <!--ZOOMSTOPFOLLOW--> and <!--ZOOMRESTARTFOLLOW--> instead.

You may also need to check the option to "Reload all pages (do not use cache)" under "Configure"->"Spider Options" if you have just added these tags and to avoid indexing a cached copy of the page (where you have not added these tags yet).