[Moin-user] Re: Moin-user digest, Vol 1 #534 - 1 msg

[R. Yu]

I grep'd for "robots" and found the relevant python
file (wikiutil.py?).  I read through the tag-related code and
now the behavior makes sense.  

thanks.

-Rob


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>    1. Re: robots noindex,nofollow (Thomas Waldmann)
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> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:51:13 +0200
> From: Thomas Waldmann <tw at waldmann-edv.de>
> To: moin-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Moin-user] robots noindex,nofollow
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> > I'm running MoinMoin 1.2.3.  Currently, all wiki pages are
> > meta-tagged with "robots noindex,nofollow" except for FrontPage
> > (and maybe RecentChanges).
> 
> They should be tagged index,nofollow (if you don't specify an action).
> 
> FP and RC are index,follow.
> 
> This means a search engine can find and index ALL pages.
> 
> > I would like to change this behavior
> > by expanding the set of pages allowing robots.  Alternately,
> > I'd like to allow robots on all pages.
> 
> They are allowed and it doesnt make much sense giving them "follow" on 
> every page, this just makes lots of traffic and load on your server by 
> triggering all sorts of nonsense (as far as bots are concerned).
> 
> > But I'm still not sure how to modify the meta-tag behavior.
> 
> Why would you want to?
> 
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