#6646 closed enhancement (fixed)
[patch] tell robots to not index archive pages
| Reported by: | Vaclav Slavik | Owned by: | osimons |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | FullBlogPlugin |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.11 |
Description
This patch adds <meta> tags to disallow indexing of archive pages. Rationale: these are usually just garbage in search engine results, unlike individual posts.
Attachments (1)
Change History (5)
Changed 16 years ago by
| Attachment: | noindex.patch added |
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comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 follow-up: 3 Changed 15 years ago by
How are search engines supposed to find my individual blog posts if you've added NOINDEX to all ways of listing posts, including the default entry page to my site? :(
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by
Replying to cory:
How are search engines supposed to find my individual blog posts if you've added NOINDEX to all ways of listing posts, including the default entry page to my site? :(
Search engines are supposed to look for two bits of metainformation: NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW. Turning off NOINDEX just means that it will not index frontpages and listings that may change over time, but it will still follow links into each blog post (with its own unique URL) and index them - we haven't turned off NOFOLLOW for these pages, so engines will continue into each post when crawling the blog.
comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by
Oops. Thank you. I see that now. I was under the impression that INDEX permission was a prerequisite to FOLLOW. Sorry for the confusion.
(In [7622]) FullBlogPlugin: Adding
NOINDEXfor robots on archive and listing pages. Thanks to Vaclav Slavik for patch. Closes #6646.