Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Excluding search engines

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

"Philip J. Hollenback" schrieb:
> I notice that when google indexes my web site www.hollenback.net, it
> finds all the pages, including the info and edit pages.
> 
> It seems to me that you would just want to have the straight index.php
> pages listed, why would you want someone to jump straight to editing a
> page they just found?
> 
> So, does anyone have any ideas for controlling this?  It seems that
> perhaps the robots.txt file could be used on the server, although I
> haven't investigated that yet.

we use a better scheme: robots meta tags, which allow them to index and follow
links
from browse pages and disallow them to index and follow links from informative
and 
edit pages.

since most robots don't follow POST forms this is imho enough.
but we could enhance this to force edit/diff/PageHistory and other info links
to 
use image buttons with POST instead, like SignIn.
The MacOSX theme has such buttons but not localized.

but these are VERY hard to maintian translated, esp. without carsten's 
text2png button factory. hmm. probably not worth the effort just for google. 
BTW: I like the google service. I'm very prominent on Google.
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