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  • Anthony Candaele 1197 posts 2049 karma points
    Oct 10, 2013 @ 09:30
    Anthony Candaele
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    how to stop Google from following nodes

    Hi,

    As you can see in the screenshot of my content section, I'm using year folder nodes for the organization of publications in the Umbraco backoffice.

    yearfolders in the Content Tree

    these yearfolder nodes (2013, 2012, 2011) don't have a template, their just for organizational purpose.

    However, seems that Google is tracking them and reporting them as 404 errors:

    Google Webmaster Tools reports yearfolder nodes as 404 errors

    Is there a way to prevent Google from following these 'organizational' nodes?

    Thanks for your help,

    Anthony

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Oct 10, 2013 @ 09:54
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Hi Anthony,

    May be you could try adding a field to your Node where you can change the meta name Robot and instead have

    <meta name="Robots" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW"> 

    and where you by default have the other node

    <meta name="Robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">
  • Anthony Candaele 1197 posts 2049 karma points
    Oct 10, 2013 @ 10:06
    Anthony Candaele
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    Hi Fuji,

    Thanks, will try this out. I'm just wondering if there doesn't exist some build in Umbraco property for this kind of situation. Can't image I'm the only one having to deal with this problem :)

    greetings,

    Anthony

  • Fuji Kusaka 2203 posts 4220 karma points
    Oct 10, 2013 @ 10:25
    Fuji Kusaka
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    Yes it is quite annoying specially when google index some pages which in fact is only  a folder without any template in your umbraco content.

    What i usually do is add a 302 umbracoRedirect to the folder. So whenever google index this folder and you can just click on the url which will redirect to the first or selected node.

     

    //fuji

  • Anthony Candaele 1197 posts 2049 karma points
    Oct 10, 2013 @ 10:38
    Anthony Candaele
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    yes, I think the umbracoRedirect field is the best solution. I tried out the:

    <meta name="Robots" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
    

    solution,

    but the problem is that a node without template generates a 404 error when clicked on, and the url request gets redirected to a custom 404 page.

    So I think I'll stick with the umbracoRedirect solution.

    Thanks for your help Fuji

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