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1. SteveDrum
   Member
   Posted 12 months ago #

   Hello.
   Just wondering if anyone can help out with this...
   i want to include a robots noindex meta tag for pages containing no posts.
   e.g, if someone visits a tag archive, and the tag has been deleted, then i don't want it indexed by google, so i want to put a noindex tag at the top.

   but i can't figure out how you can include it in the head, when the loop hasn't started yet.
   i've been reading up, and i reckon the solution has probably got something to do with have_posts(), but i can't work out how to actually implement it.

   if anyone has got some tips, that would be great.

2. chaoskaizer
   Member
   Posted 12 months ago #

   If the tag archive has been deleted WP should return 404 page not a blank tag archive.

   I suggest you add a robots.txt rules so googlebot wont have to revisit the page.

   example -robots.txt
   

   User-agent: Googlebot
   Disallow: /blog/tags/the-deleted-tag-slugname

   Then you should validate the new robots.txt rules using google-webmaster tools. G bot should re-index your blog and exclude those uri.

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