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Defect #7582

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hiding form pages from search engines

Added by Yuki Sonoda about 13 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Search engine
Target version:
Start date:
2011-02-09
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Fixed
Affected version:

Description

Form pages like /issues/new are not worth to be indexed by search engines. And moreover it is sometimes confusing for visitors from search engine. When you have a question about redmine and you search about it, what can you do if /issues/new appears?

It happens when these form pages are opened for anonymous user. It actually happened at redmine.ruby-lang.org once. So I wrote the attached patch. This patch adds a meta element as follows in some pages:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,FOLLOW,NOARCHIVE" />


Files

robot_exclusion.patch (2.01 KB) robot_exclusion.patch Yuki Sonoda, 2011-02-09 08:20

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Defect #6734: robots.txt: disallow crawling issues list with a query stringClosedGo MAEDA2010-10-24

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Actions #1

Updated by Jean-Baptiste Barth about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from New to 7
  • Assignee set to Jean-Baptiste Barth
  • Affected version (unused) set to 1.1.1
  • Affected version set to 1.1.1

Makes sense to me. I saw some people use it uppercase, other lowercase. Do you know if there is any difference ? (I don't care about standards here, but some exotic search engines may have bots with exotic implementations..)

Actions #2

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 13 years ago

  • Target version set to 1.2.0
Actions #3

Updated by Ве Fio about 13 years ago

Related to #6734 (check note-9). Issue #6734 could be solved with this issue as well, since the code required is basically what's needed.

Actions #4

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang almost 13 years ago

  • Status changed from 7 to Closed
  • Resolution set to Fixed

Patch committed in r5443. It was lowercase'd for consistency with other head tags.

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