Robots Follow, Index or...

[Luca]

Once again compliments for this Great new CMS, I am really impressed about it!

Anyway, wouldn't be interesting also having included in the Article/Page Parameters the option for robots to index/noindex/follow/nofollow (or combination of them)?

Just only my 1 cent... 

Thank you,

Luca

[datahell]

Elxis puts noindex/nofollow automatically to pages they should not be indexed. All the rest pages should be indexed, so why to put such an option?

[Luca]

@Datahell

Thank you for the answer.

  Yes.
i.e.
- in a contact page or in a long list of links I would set noindex/follow (ex., in another site (classifieds) I have set this in a page of 1000+ links to cities... ;
- in a "we are listed on..." page I would set noindex/nofollow or even index/nofollow...
and so on, depending on the use one would like to do..

IMO, would not be a wrong tool to have... 

Luca

[datahell]

In Elxis 4.x you can set robots META tag by using the setMetaTag method of the elxisDocument library.

Example of setting robots to noindex, follow:

eFactory::getDocument()->setMetaTag('robots', 'noindex, follow', false);

One more tip
If you want to set these custom meta tags only on some articles you can put a check for the ELXIS_ARTID constant (article's id) inside your template's index.php file.

Example
if (defined('ELXIS_ARTID') && (ELXIS_ARTID == 3)) {
      eFactory::getDocument()->setMetaTag('robots', 'noindex, follow', false);
}

Example for multiple articles
if (defined('ELXIS_ARTID') && in_array(ELXIS_ARTID, array(3, 12, 7, 45, 28))) {
      eFactory::getDocument()->setMetaTag('robots', 'noindex, follow', false);
}

Note
In cases where a library is being used more than one time dont use the chained method but use it like that:
$eDoc = eFactory::getDocument();
$eDoc->setMetaTag(...);
$eDoc->setTitle(...);
$eDoc->addStyleLink(...);

[Luca]

@Datahell

  Thank you!

luca

[datahell]

A correction to me: The name of the Elxis constant that contains the current article's id is ELXIS_ARTID and not ARTID.