Setting values for the robots meta tag

Questions
1

Hi all,

Just adding a summary first and a question below.

The robots meta tag is generated from Litium and the default seems to generate a tag like this:

< meta name=“robots” content=“index,follow” / >

If other values are needed (e.g. stopping crawlers from indexing/following pages that are used for email signup confirmations etc) then a SQL script is needed as these values can’t be set from the page type definition. (According to support ticket ZAP-189-43978 answered by Patric Forsgard)

The SQL script should modify the SearchEngineIndex and SearchEngineFollow fields in both dbo.CMS_Page and dbo.CMS_WorkingCopy tables for the pages that is related to the affected page types.

Question:
When adding more pages of the affected types, what is the best approach to setting the correct values for these fields? A Litium task running regularly that resets correct values for all pages related to these page types?

Litium version: 6.x

Regards
Magnus

2

Not sure I understand the question here but the rendering of the robots tag is avaliable to edit in accelerators Head.cshtml-file, can you not just modify that so that it always renders specific pagetypes the way you like?

3

Sounds like an alternative approach, but that will bypass the existing function of the db fields?

4

Yes, but updating the values with a scheduled job might be more confusing since that would change the values that the users have set on the page.

5

Totally overriding this function in cshtml for some page types seems almost as confusing, IMHO.

I corrected my first post, as users can see and change these settings in Backoffice for page instances. (But not for the page type)

6

If you want to set it on the page you could listen to the page published event to modify the value, you could also add a new field that overrides the standard robot values and give that field a default value.

The new fields description should clearly state that it overrides any other robots value if it has a value is specified.