[pmwiki-users] search robot indexing

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-01-26  02:29 PM +0000, Hans Bracker is rumored to have said:
>I am wondering what the best practise is to set up pmwiki regards to
>search robots, for an installation which should be indexed, but in a
>safe way and avoiding exploits from wiki spammers.

If you are concerned with well behaved robots, such as Google, they all 
follow the robots exclusion protocol which you can implement by simply 
including a text file at your server root. This text file does require 
manual maintenance as groups are added and so on.

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html

I thought I remembered seeing some PmWiki markup for a group header that 
generated the appropriate "nofollow" meta-tags for the page. I can't find 
any references to it now. Perhaps Patrick can confirm?

Note that neither of these methods does anything to deflect spammers and 
vandals. They just give you control over how your site is indexed by the 
good guys.


Neil

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