Lack of interest No Index on Poll Results Pages

[Brent W]

Would be really nice to use the noindex meta tag on certain areas of xenForo. For example the Poll results pages do not need to be indexed.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710&from=61050&rd=1

 

[Chris D]

What do you mean by "Poll Results Pages"?

The only time I ever see Poll results is in an overlay which isn't a page as such...

I see what you mean now...

 

[Brent W]

There is a page that exists if javascript is disabled. Search Engine spiders don't use javascript therefore they see this page.

Example: http://www.shottalk.com/threads/wha...or-5s.10500/poll/results?poll_response_id=580

 

[Chris D]

Yeah it's ok I realised straight after I posted

I have a solution, I'll just test it.

 

[Chris D]

I think this is one for robots.txt.

My solution didn't work!

I'll check what the syntax is (which you asked in your other thread).

 

[Chris D]

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/poll/results$
Allow: /

This is the syntax. Note that some search engines may not support * or $ wildcards. But the major ones including Google do.