Issue: NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW for selected namespaces and revisions

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September 1, 2008 7:22 AM

ILTK

Junior Member

NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW for selected namespaces and revisions

Some of the namespaces doesn't need to be indexed as they are just duplicate content, templates for example.

Especially true for revisions. If someone wants revisions to be public, they should be NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW as they are all duplicate content by nature. If someone wants to let anonymous edit their wiki and they get spammers editing an article, they would then revert the article, but the spam links is still there in the revisions if they choose to make those public, and they would link to bad neighborhoods/spammer if search engine bots indexes the revisions.

NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW for anything but article content would take care of that.

Special pages, recent changes should also be noindex, nofollow, there's no reason for search bots to spend time crawling those instead of crawling the real articles.

wikipedia has been doing this for a while if you look at the source for anything that's not an article, not sure when they started, but it's been there for as long as I can remember.

Issue Details

Issue Number 221

Issue Type Feature

Project VaultWiki 3.x Series

Category Unknown

Status Implemented

Priority 5 - Minor Bugs / Small Tweaks

Suggested Version 2.0.4

Implemented Version 2.1.1

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyAny

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September 27, 2008 12:46 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Done. As of the next build, this applies to all tabs except the article and discussion tabs. This also applies to the article tab in the following namespaces: Special, Template, Help, Header. When Template and Header articles are used in context the bots should be able to crawl normally.

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September 29, 2008 12:52 PM

ILTK

Junior Member

Great

This will realy clean up duplicate content issues, and make it less lucrative for spammers to hit the article pages, and will also let spiders crawl what's important instead of using bandwidth to crawl pages that shouldn't be indexed.

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Issue: NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW for selected namespaces and revisions

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