[Mailman-Users] Google and other search engines

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Fri Oct 28 21:04:50 CEST 2005


Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>2)You can configure your web server to add a
>
>Robots: noindex,nofollow
>
>header when it delivers the pages.
>
>3)You can edit the various arch*.html and article.html templates to add
>a
>
><META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
>
>tag. See
>http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.048.htp
>for editing instructions.
>
>2) is better than 3), if you do 2) you don't need 3). 1) never hurts.

Actually, I googled a bit and now it is not clear to me that 2) is
better than 3) or even if 2) works at all. Maybe someone else knows.

In any case, except for the additional effort to set it up, it won't
hurt to do both.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan




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