I am still confused about the source of the Meta Tag META NAME=robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" . Our archive indexes have the "noindex,follow" tag, but the pages for each message have "index, nofollow". We want our archives to be available for unrestricted spidering and indexing throughout all of the pages. What do we need to do to enable the correct tag in our html? What exactly does the follow or nofollow part of it do?
On a different topic.... I see several threads and methods concerning the use of search engines for searching the archives. What would be the most simple way for us to add a way for users to search for keywords in our archives?
Thanks.
John Webb
On Fri, 01 May 2009 14:56:01 -0400 John Webb <john@virginiamountains.com> wrote:
Hello John,
What exactly does the follow or nofollow part of it do?
(no)follow tells spiders whether or not to follow links on your page. Of course, it applies *only* to your page, so the link can still be arrived at from external pages.
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Thanks Brad. Any idea what I need to do to get index/follow into my archives html?
John
At 03:29 AM 5/2/2009, you wrote:
Hello John,
What exactly does the follow or nofollow part of it do?
(no)follow tells spiders whether or not to follow links on your page. Of course, it applies *only* to your page, so the link can still be arrived at from external pages.
On Sat, 02 May 2009 16:53:26 -0400 John Webb <webbs@swva.net> wrote:
Hello John,
Thanks Brad. Any idea what I need to do to get index/follow into my
You're welcome.
archives html?
Mark has answered that. Which is great, 'coz I had no idea where to look! :-)
-- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent"
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John Webb wrote:
Thanks Brad. Any idea what I need to do to get index/follow into my archives html?
See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9>.
More specifically, assuming you're only concerned about English language, find Mailman's templates/ directory.
Create templates/site/ and templates/site/en/ (these should be mode drwxrwsr-x and group mailman).
Copy templates/en/article.html to templates/site/en/article.html.
Edit the META tag in templates/site/en/article.html.
If you have non-English language lists, do the same for the other languages.
Stop Mailman.
Backup archives.
Rebuild archives - e.g.
#! /bin/sh
cd /path/to/mailman
for list in bin/list_lists --bare ; do
bin/arch --wipe $list
done
Start Mailman.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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