Google indexing cookie notice (version 1.2)

[optrex]

Google started to index one of my new projects today, and I couldn't help but notice the cookie warning is prominent in everything.

What would be the best way to prevent this from happening? I need the cookie notice, but I dont need it as the description for every forum

 

[JulianD]

There are several ways to accomplish this. One simple way is using template conditionals.

Go to http://xenforo.com/community/resources/conditional-statements.1604/

Look for the search engine conditional.

Now edit the template that contains the code for your notification and wrap it up in a negated search engine conditional.

I hope I'm being clear enough for you. I'm in my phone and don't have access to the admin panel so I can't give you exact template names or syntax

 

[optrex]

Thanks, that sort of makes sense, but what conditional would be used to allow it to be seen by guests but not indexed by search engines?

 

[Paul B]

Interestingly I don't see this on my or other sites.

 

[Brent W]

I would guess it has something to do with the age of the forums. Brogan has a much more established forum so Google probably has a better time placing a more accurate description on their SERPs.

 

[optrex]

I see it on my current 1.1 site too and that has been running for 2 years

 

[Paul B]

I'm on 1.2 - updated last week.

 

[MattW]

My main URL displays the cookie notice in the search result (site has been running since 2006)



There is code you can use to stop Google from pulling in certain content:

<!--googleoff: index-->
here will be skipped
<!--googleon: index-->

 

[MattW]

So what you could do, is edit the template notice_cookies

and wrap

{xen:phrase this_site_uses_cookies_notice} <a href="{xen:link help/cookies}">{xen:phrase learn_more}</a>

in the googleoff code

<!--googleoff: index-->{xen:phrase this_site_uses_cookies_notice} <a href="{xen:link help/cookies}">{xen:phrase learn_more}</a><!--googleon: index-->