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1. mimiburned
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi!
   How can I place a meta robotx noindex tag on comment pages? I don't want my comment pages being indexed.
   I automatically places an index tag and can't find where to disable it.

   thanks in advance!

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gregs-high-performance-seo/

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Links within comments are automatically set to 'noindex' if I remember correctly.

3. mimiburned
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   That's not what a meant, didn't say anything about links within comments. I'm talking about comments pages, ie. comment-page-2, comment-page-3, and so on.

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   They are part of the single post page, so you can't noindex them without applying it to all single posts.

5. mimiburned
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Those are sub-pages, and the Ultimate SEO plugin was able to set a noindex tag in them. But I don't want to stop using Greg's plugin.
   I'm not sure if you are understanding what I need.

6. GregMulhauser
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi mimiburned,

   GHPSEO doesn't support adding noindex to comment pages (good idea, though -- will mark it down for possible inclusion in future release). However, for search engines that understand wildcards, such as Google, it's easy enough via robots.txt:

   Disallow: /*/comment-page

   That says to the bot: disregard anything that includes 'comment-page' within it, provided there's at least one directory above it.

   All the best,
   Greg

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