[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Printable Pages and Google

[cordiste]

Hi,

+1 for the NOINDEX. It's a good idea.

Also can we implement a redirect to the regular version in case of a
direct link to the printable version from robots or referers?

Ben

2011/1/2 Website Master <websitemaster at cogeco.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> I hope everyone has had a good new year so far. My main PC  suffered a
> motherboard meltdown last week so I ended up having to get a whole new
> computer. I think I am almost finished moving over all my data, applications
> and settings.  Uugghh!
>
> Anyways, does anyone have any problems with me added the following meta tag
> to the story and staticpage printable templates?
>
> <META name="robots" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />
>
> I do not see the point of having these files indexed since the regular
> versions are already indexed. I hate when I see in Google my print version
> of a story outranking for some reason the actual version of the story. We
> could also maybe just use:
>
> <META name="robots" content="NOINDEX" />
>
> To indicate not to index the page but follow the links (though the links
> would be on the regular page and followed there so the other example may be
> better?).
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the matter?
>
> Tom
>
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