Can you share how to do that please ?I’m thinking of adding it to my robots.txt and adding a NoIndex attribute to remove it from search engines entirely
Add the following in your robots.txt:Can you share how to do that please ?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /tags/
<xf:head option="metaNoindex"><meta name="robots" content="noindex" /></xf:head>
I'm already a client of his but deleting the tags won't solve the 404 issue will it?$35 gets you rights to download any or all of @AndyB's 300-400 addons for a year.
Thank you @JoyFreak, this method is to continue to use the tags but allows them to no longer be indexed correct?Add the following in your robots.txt:
Code:User-agent: * Disallow: /tags/
In Admin CP > Options > XML sitemap generation > uncheck tag
In the tag_view template add the following, below the title page at the top:
Code:<xf:head option="metaNoindex"><meta name="robots" content="noindex" /></xf:head>
metaNoindex
method is better. for some reason google would still show robots.txt blocked links in search result pages. Yeah, use the metaNoindex as a first step and then when the pages drop from Google, add it to your robots.txt to stop those pages being crawled.metaNoindex
method is better. for some reason google would still show robots.txt blocked links in search result pages.
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I hope you made a backup.I forgot I had a search forum based on tags, I deleted them all and now my search forum is empty...
I would have done better to break my arm !!
Yes that's the decision I made, ultimately in the operation of the forum they are not very useful: the internal search engine works quite well to find discussions on a specific topic. The tag cloud is not necessarily useful either. I had 1800 different tags and some were only used for one discussion, others were misspelled, etc... On Google I know I have quite a few tags indexed but I guess that dilutes the SEO juice and the links don't point to a discussion but to a search result page.Deleting them wasn’t really necessary unless you wanted to stop using tags altogether.
Just added the noindex meta to my tag pages. I wonder how long it'll take for those pages to disappear from google and better ones replace them?Add the following in your robots.txt:
Code:User-agent: * Disallow: /tags/
In Admin CP > Options > XML sitemap generation > uncheck tag
In the tag_view template add the following, below the title page at the top:
Code:<xf:head option="metaNoindex"><meta name="robots" content="noindex" /></xf:head>
Warning: Don't use a robots.txt file as a means to hide your web pages from Google search results.
If other pages point to your page with descriptive text, Google could still index the URL without visiting the page. If you want to block your page from search results, use another method such as password protection or noindex.
That's what I didthis would probably not remove the tag links from the index. for that you would need to add noindex metatag to the tag pages.
Block Search Indexing with 'noindex' | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google Developers
Robots.txt Introduction and Guide | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google Developers
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