allow admin to set meta nofollow/noindex options per page/post/category/archive/post-type

[offordscott]

allow admin to set meta nofollow/noindex options per page/post/category/archive/post-type

(without needing a plugin to do this)

[markoheijnen]

I really think this is a feature that shouldn't be in core. Also it has dependencies to taxonomie meta data and somewhere an ability to set it for archives.

[offordscott]

Marko,

What do you mean by "...it has
dependencies to taxonomie meta data"?

Also, "somewhere an ability to set it for archives." ... Where is that option?

[markoheijnen]

Taxonomy doesn't have a meta table (yet). So no ability to save this data. For archives there is no representation in wp-admin. So options are missing.

closing it since I don't see why this should be in core. To me this is a rare case and there are plugins doing this.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Sounds like plugin territory to me too.

[offordscott]

What percent of Wordpress sites have some sort of SEO plugin installed? Having some of these feature built in would make it easier to configure a new website and would require less plugins.

100% of the websites I build require additional configuring of noindex or nofollow tags, for example, on Thank You pages, or category archive pages (for avoiding duplicate content issues with search engine indexation).

Having the ability to noindex Tags or Categories without installing a plugin would really rock.

[markoheijnen]

How many sites with a SEO plugin really using that plugin? ;) Installing a plugin is easy to do but it doesn't make sense to have. WordPress has a 80% rule. When 80% of the user base would use it then the change exists that it will be included. Like on all my clients site I don't install any kind of SEO plugin. I do write some specific logic for the site (theme).

Also it doesn't make sense to have a special thank you page. That seems the mistake and noindex/nofollow is just a bandage on the issue. About archive pages I don't know but it sounds weird.

[offordscott]

I see where you're coming from. What is that code you write (logic) for your themes?

Wen you refer to it as a bandaid, what is the bigger issue you are referring to?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to offordscott:

100% of the websites I build require additional configuring of noindex or nofollow tags, for example, on Thank You pages, or category archive pages (for avoiding duplicate content issues with search engine indexation).

We have rel="canonical" attribute (introduced in #10115) to address duplicate content issues:
​http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Additional UI options to replace a SEO plugin would not meet the criteria for majority usage:
​http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/our-philosophies/#clean-lean-and-mean