Meta ROBOTS Tag (Index,Follow,Noindex,NoFollow) in Platinum SEO Plugin
Some of you may wonder why you need post/page level options to set html meta robots tag? Platinum SEO plugin provides these options for a few reasons.Read on to find out why? Infact I plan to enhance this further, in this wordpress plugin.
Why does Platinum SEO plugin offer post/page level options to set meta robots tags?
A wordpress site owner should have an easier way to say whether a particular post/page should be indexed or not.This option is particularly useful when you want to tell the search engines, not to index a particular post or page. It is also useful when you want to tell search engines like Google or Yahoo, to not hold that particular post/page in their index, anymore.In other words, this option simplifies the task of placing a request to the search engines, to remove a particular post/page from their index.
Likewise this option lets you easily tell the search engine spiders, whether links in a particular post/page should be followed or not.For example, you may like to create a sponsored post/page on your site.Unfortunately, some important search engines like Google do not like to see sponsored posts. Infact, Google insists that you nofollow all sponsored links.The meta “index,nofollow” option lets you index the post/page content but nofollow all sponsored links on that post/page.
The above are two example scenarios where you will find this post/page level option, to set meta robots tag (Index, Follow, Noindex,NoFollow), really useful.
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personal web site of ersineser
very good seo tool for wordpress web site
thanks.
ersineser, istanbul, Turkiye
Hello there,
Great plugin. One small issue:
As the robots META tag is set both per page and site-wide, this is what happens:
meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow”
and then…
meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow,noodp,noydir”
I would rather have a single robots tag with the correct content. Is there a way to do this? I would prefer to not have a default on the per-page option (maybe have one radio button be something like “only use site directives”).
Your thoughts on this are appreciated.
Cheers,
Jeff
There is no per page thingy in this plugin. Check your theme’s header.php which must be adding it by default or you have some other plugin that does that…