SEO
This document covers notes and policies related to SEO.
Prefer meta
tag if possible¶
If an entire page should not be indexed, and/or none of its links
followed, prefer to use the <meta name="robots" ...>
tag by specifying
something like:
{% set meta = (('robots', 'noindex'),) %}
or:
{% set meta = (('robots', 'noindex, nofollow'),) %}
within the lowest-level Jinja2 templates of the inheritance chain that apply to only the desired pages.
However, if you only want to discourage the crawling of specific links
within a page, you\'ll have to add rel="nofollow"
to each of those
links within its template. For example:
<a rel="nofollow" href="...">...</a>
Breadcrumbs¶
If one or more of the breadcrumb links for a page should not be crawled, you can add an extra string to those breadcrumb tuples to specify the proper attribute to use, for example:
{% set crumbs = [((profile_url(user), 'rel="nofollow"'), user.username), (None, title)] %}
or:
{% set crumbs = [(document.get_absolute_url(), document.title), ((url('wiki.discuss.threads', document.slug), 'rel="ugc nofollow"'), _('Discuss'))] %}
KB Forums¶
KB forums are user-generated content about KB articles. They are not
official content, and therefore not meant to be searchable. All links to
KB forums should be marked with rel="ugc nofollow"
.
User Links¶
User-related pages are also not meant to be indexed (searchable), and
links to them should not be crawled, so the base user template
(kitsune/users/jinja2/users/base.html
) contains:
{% set meta = (('robots', 'noindex'),) %}
and all user links on all pages should be marked with rel="nofollow"
.