David Parkinson - Miscellaneous ramblings of a web developer » noindex http://daparky.com Miscellaneous ramblings of a web developer called David Parkinson. I work full time as a web developer but have interests in other things. Mon, 14 May 2012 20:57:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Finally sorted out indexing problem http://daparky.com/finally-sorted-out-indexing-problem/ http://daparky.com/finally-sorted-out-indexing-problem/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:29:05 +0000 David Parkinson http://daparky.com/finally-sorted-out-indexing-problem/ Google was indexing pages i didn’t want indexing for example, the admin pages, plugin pages etc. I installed Joost de Valk’s Robots Meta plugin which adds the appropiate meta tags to pages. An example of this is that google had indexed my login page, and robots meta has now put a ‘noindex’ meta tag to stop this from happening in the future.

I used Googles removal tool within Webmaster Tools section to remove these directories, including the admin pages and tag archives. I finally think i’ve worked it all out in terms of what i want indexing and what i don’t want indexing. I chose categories over tags and appled ’noindex’ to the tag archives using ‘All in one seo pack‘ plugin.

Using both of these plugins together is very effective on what you want indexing etc. All i want indexing is my blog posts, cateogories and nothing else. I don’t mind the /page/ directory being indexed.

In a later post, i will post what i have blocked google from indexing and why.

]]> http://daparky.com/finally-sorted-out-indexing-problem/feed/ 0 Duplicate content, tags and categories http://daparky.com/duplicate-content-tags-and-categories/ http://daparky.com/duplicate-content-tags-and-categories/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:05:43 +0000 David Parkinson http://daparky.com/duplicate-content-tags-and-categories/ Last night when i did a site:daparky.com in Google, i found out that Google were listing my tags that i set when i started the blog, but removed the tags immediately when i found out about duplicate content issues. So howcome they have listed them now and not then?

I had a quick look at my plugins and looked at the options for All in One SEO Pack. I realised that ‘Use noindex for Tag Archives’ was unticked, so therefore tag archives were being indexed. I quickly panicked and unticked this and ticked ‘Use noindex for Categories’ because i had originally chosen categories over tags. I didn’t check over all the options when i should have done in the first place, so let that be a lesson to you and me.

It may take a few days before the new options kick in, but now i can start using tags for my blog post. I’m only going to use tags on important blog post because the likes of technorati etc like tags and technorati is a ping service rather than a bot, so the tags wouldn’t get dropped.

I had wondered why my categories weren’t getting indexed by Google, and now i’ve found out why, i can flip things around and drop tags and index my categories.

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