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Aug 26, 2002, 7:23 AM
Teambldr
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Aug 26, 2002, 7:23 AM
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Search Engines and Private Forums
Hi,



Is it possible to limit search engine spiders to the home page of the forum rather than having complete access to all forums including private ones?

The following are meta tags that need to be inserted and since these pages are dynamic I am unsure as per where these tags will go (on a page by page basis): (1-5 are ranked in importance)

Code:
<head>

<title>TITLE</title> 2
<meta name="keywords" content="XXX"> 3
<meta name="description" content="YYY"> 4
<meta name="language" content="en-us">
<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX"> 1
<meta name="rating" content="GENERAL">
<meta name="distribution" content="GLOBAL">
<meta name="classification" content="Business and Economy">
<meta name="copyright" content="Enter your copyright information here">
<meta name="author" content="Author">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days"> 5
<meta http-equiv="bulletin-text" content="ZZZZZ">
<meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="email@domain.com">
</head>


Any assistance is welcome.

Thanks!Cool
Aug 26, 2002, 11:07 AM
Jagerman
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Aug 26, 2002, 11:07 AM
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If these should be on a forum page, put them after the <title>...</title> in forum_view.html. You'll need to use some sort of: <%if forum_id == this%>...<%elseif forum_id == that%>...<%endif%> system, because it looks like each forum needs its own different meta tags.
Jason Rhinelander
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Aug 27, 2002, 10:03 AM
Alex
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Aug 27, 2002, 10:03 AM
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Is it possible to limit search engine spiders to the home page of the forum rather than having complete access to all forums including private ones?


But spiders won't have access to the private forums. They won't be visible unless the spider "logs on". =)

Cheers,

Alex
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