Hi there,

I am struggling editing a meta robots tag (with noindex, follow values) for SEO purposes in a single page in Magento.

The page is not a product page is a review one, so I don't know really where to start.


Thank you

<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">

You are struggling with this.

You can select NOINDEX/INDEX,FOLLOW/NOFOLLOW on the admin section of each page

Originally Posted by Seonsmart

Hi there,

I am struggling editing a meta robots tag (with noindex, follow values) for SEO purposes in a single page in Magento.

The page is not a product page is a review one, so I don't know really where to start.

Thank you

In the backend of Magento, in the CMS section where you add the pages, there should be meta data fields in there... I can't remember off the top of my head if you can put a robots attribute in there...

The other alternative is to put something into the page templates themselves.

You're looking to edit a .phtml file within your template which should reside here:

install-folder/app/design/frontend/default/template-name/template/page/

(where template-name is changed to the actual name of the theme you're using)

So if your page is a 2 column layout, put your new meta tag in the file 2columns-left.phtml.

If you only want to apply this to 1 page, but have multiple pages running off that .phtml file, then make a new one and choose that in the Magento CMS. For example, you could make a new .phtml file:

2columns-left-no-robots.phtml

And just use that as the page template for that particular page.

Hope this helped, I know just how confusing the Magento system can be!

Good luck!

you can change with

<reference name="head">
<action method="setRobots"><value>NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW</value><name>robots</name></action>
</reference>

This XML could be used in any of layout XML files as well as any CMS Page’s Layout Update XML Field (as shown above). In summary, the code calls the setRobots method on the head block. Using the action XML tag it is possible to call any publically available function on the block being referenced.

It is recommended not to use the Meta Robots tag, though, as search engines often ignore it. If you need to control the search engine robots, use a robots.txt file or modify your htaccess file, instead. Many people are concerned that if a bot comes to their site through a subpage and not their homepage, the robots.txt file will not be read, but this is not true. The robots.txt is read each time the bot comes to a new domain. You can verify this through your web logs.