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| Simsig visibility in search engines 30/08/2012 at 15:14 #35298 | |
hotwellian
211 posts |
Hi, I have noticed that the header code for the default SimSig page; www.SimSig.co.uk, contains the meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />. Thus a google (or other search engine) query will not find the home page, but will turn up many results from the wiki and forum. I am not sure why the website home page should be hidden from indexing bots. If the true intention is to so hide it, the correct syntax would be <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> If instead Simsig should appear as the first hit on the query results, the meta tag should be corrected to <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> Log in to reply |
| Simsig visibility in search engines 30/08/2012 at 16:48 #35302 | |
GeoffM
6287 posts |
Thanks for the heads-up. It must be a setting in Joomla somewhere, rather than specifying the tags directly. I'll have a look later.
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| Simsig visibility in search engines 30/08/2012 at 19:28 #35305 | |
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delticfan
476 posts |
" said:Hi,I've noticed the same thing using Google Chrome. If you just search on 'Simsig' you seem to get many options rather than just the link for the homepage and the ones that do appear just give an error page. The only way I could get in was using 'Simsig downloads' or SimSig sounds' and navigate from there. Log in to reply |
| Simsig visibility in search engines 30/08/2012 at 21:10 #35307 | |
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ralphjwchadkirk
275 posts |
No need to change it, just remove it and resubmit the XML sitemap through Google and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Last edited: 30/08/2012 at 21:10 by ralphjwchadkirk Log in to reply |
| Simsig visibility in search engines 30/08/2012 at 21:30 #35308 | |
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GeoffM
6287 posts |
" said:No need to change it, just remove it and resubmit the XML sitemap through Google and Bing Webmaster Tools.If only it was that easy! Joomla works like cascading style sheets in that the global setting (which was "index, follow"  can be overridden by the menus, by individual articles, by the template, and what I eventually found was the problem - dodgy code. How on earth it deals with conflicting tags like when more than one article is on a page I have no idea. But in the end the culprit was the Kunena forum "latest topics" module which was directly writing "noindex, follow" to the output tag generator and ignoring every other setting.(And if anybody finds this page through searching (!) then the fix is located on the Kunena website) SimSig Boss Log in to reply |