PHP Help. NoIndexNofollow

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by BigBadWolf, Dec 8, 2006.

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  1. #1
    Hey Guys,

    I have a PHP redirect page that I dont want indexed so I want to slap a NoIndex, Nofollow tag on it. I know how to do this is HTML but not sure how to figure it out in PHP.

    The redirect is like this:

    <?php
    header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
    ?>

    This doesnt work because it reads the HTML and cause an error.

    <html>
    <?php
    //this will NOT work, the browser received the HTML tag before the script
    header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
    ?>


    Thanks :)
     
    BigBadWolf, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  2. ednit

    ednit Peon

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    #2
    On your server, in the robots.txt file:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /somefileredirect.php

    This is not in php, but a compliant search engine robot will obey it.

    -Rob
     
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  3. rgchris

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    Just for future reference... if you ever want to put HTML in PHP, just echo it out.

    ie. echo '<h1>Title</h1>';
     
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  4. BigBadWolf

    BigBadWolf Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Thanks for the responses guys.

    Rob could I disallow a whole folder with many redirects in them?

    ex:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /folder/ *

    Is this possible in the robots.txt?

    Using the echo method the code would be something like this:

    echo'<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">';
    <?php
    header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
    ?>

    Is this correct?

    Thanks
     
    BigBadWolf, Dec 8, 2006 IP
  5. rgchris

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    Just make sure that the php start tag is before the part you echo out.
     
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  6. ednit

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    Yes, you can tell the spiders/bots to ignore a particluar folder like this:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /folder/

    You do not need the asterisk after the folder name, though.
     
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    BigBadWolf Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for you help guys. It was appreciate. :)
     
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  8. web-spy

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    #8
    if the php page always sends the redirect there is no need for any content on that page, that means you need no html telling to not index there
     
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