From 6a94d9838b8f88b7dda2b276d133d2ec55be3962 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Bannister <tim@scalefactory.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:35:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Mark front page announcements as <aside> elements

This matches the HTML used on the rest of the site. It helps avoid
search engines treating the aside as the primary content of the web
page.
---
 layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html | 4 ++--
 static/css/announcement.css                  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html b/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html
index 0db8e32805..b8c24412d9 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {{ if .Page.Param "announcement" }}
 <section lang="en" id="fp-announcement" style="background-color:{{ .Page.Param "announcement_bg" }}">
-  <main>
+  <aside>
     <div class="content announcement main-section">
 
       <h3>
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
       <p>{{ T "announcement_message" | markdownify }}</p>
 
     </div>
-  </main>
+  </aside>
 </section>
 {{ end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/static/css/announcement.css b/static/css/announcement.css
index 54d4c5db55..96d1065133 100644
--- a/static/css/announcement.css
+++ b/static/css/announcement.css
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
   min-height: 30vh;
 }
 
-#fp-announcement main {
+#fp-announcement aside {
   padding-top: 125px;
   padding-bottom: 35px;
 }

From 8fcfbe692b1763e0132b10150c65ce7ae1cee55d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Bannister <tim@scalefactory.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:20:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Mark announcements nosnippet

Add special metadata that Google Search pays attention to, so that the
search engine ignores the <aside> element contents for announcements.
---
 layouts/partials/announcement.html           | 2 +-
 layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/layouts/partials/announcement.html b/layouts/partials/announcement.html
index 9313885ab0..2ec2e96e35 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/announcement.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/announcement.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {{ if .Page.Param "announcement" }}
 <section lang="en" id="announcement" style="background-color:{{ .Page.Param "announcement_bg" }}">
   <aside>
-    <div class="content announcement main-section">
+    <div class="content announcement main-section" data-nosnippet>
 
       <h4 class="announcement">
           {{ T "announcement_title" | markdownify }}
diff --git a/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html b/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html
index b8c24412d9..5dce29e035 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/frontpage-announcement.html
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {{ if .Page.Param "announcement" }}
 <section lang="en" id="fp-announcement" style="background-color:{{ .Page.Param "announcement_bg" }}">
-  <aside>
-    <div class="content announcement main-section">
+  <aside >
+    <div class="content announcement main-section" data-nosnippet>
 
       <h3>
           {{ T "announcement_title" |  markdownify }}