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Last time I paid attention to which WikiLearn pages were being indexed by Google, I found a lot of duplicates because Google was indexing pages like WebChanges and other pages with dynamic searches.

Because a robots.txt file must be used at the top level of a site (like http://twiki.org/robots.txt) and the WikiLearn site is currently hosted at twiki.org along with several other webs, I can't use the robots.txt approach.

The alternate, which doesn't work for all robots, is the robots meta tag:

from HTML Author's Guide to the Robots META tag:

<html>
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta name="description" content="This page ....">
<title>...</title>
</head>
<body>
...

I may try this at the top of the content of some WikiLearn topics to see if it will work even though it will not at the required/recommended location (in the head).

See the last link under resources (Hack #100) for "noarchive" and other possibilities.

Page being tested:

  • RobotsTest
  • WebChanges (added 7 May 2003)

Resources

See Resource Recommendations. Feel free to add additional resources to these lists, but please follow the guidelines on ResourceRecommendations including Guidelines_for_Rating_Resources.

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  • () RandyKramer - 15 Apr 2003
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