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robots.txt: Disallow bots to access a given "url depth"

I have links with this structure: http://www.example.com/tags/blah http://www.example.com/tags/blubb http://www.example.com/tags/blah/blubb (for all items that match BOTH tags) I want google & co to spider all links that have ONE tag in the URL, but NOT the URLs that have two or more tags. Currently I use the html meta tag "robots" ...

SEO - noindex, nofollow and canonical tag

I need some explanation about my question. Example on my header already added <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> Should I add canonical tag again to my header? <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product.php?item=big-fish” /> Let me know :) canonical tag Update we know canonical tag is currently a...

noindex, follow on list views?

On one of our client's website we have lot's of list views with links to detail views. (Image a blog with the posts overview and the single pages). The detail views don't change, but the list views will change when new items come up. The pages displaying the list view don't contain any other valuable content. So my question is: Does it...

SEO Help with Pages Indexed by Google

I'm working on optimizing my site for Google's search engine, and lately I've noticed that when doing a "site:www.joemajewski.com" query, I get results for pages that shouldn't be indexed at all. Let's take a look at this page, for example: http://www.joemajewski.com/wow/profile.php?id=3 I created my own CMS, and this is simply a break...

noindex no follow variable- have I done this correct?

I have this script in the head of all my pages- which in an include: <?php if (isset($robots) && $robots == "off") { $robots = '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">'; print $robots."\n"; } else { $robots = '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">'; print $robots."\n"; } ?> After the hea...