<quote who="Nigel Tao"> > Basically, the noindex-ability of the blog pages seems IMHO (1) > arbitrary and (2) wrong. Normally, in good open source style, I'd > write a patch, but I don't know what software is running > blogs.gnome.org, so instead I'm making noise on this list.
It's currently running newsbruiser (though I've been investigating a port to WordPress MU, which will rock very hard). > My suggestion would be to scrap the <meta name="robots" ...> tag > entirely - I don't see why would we want to hide from searchers (GNOME > users!) the same content we proudly share on p.g.o. If indeed there > are good reasons to noindex (e.g. avoiding duplicate search results, > although search engines are good enough these days to skip dupes), I > say make [1] (the blog's homepage) and [5] (the permalink) index, and > [2], [3] and [4] (yearly / monthly / daily summaries) noindex. Agree. Unfortunately, NB has basically fallen out of maintenance, so your best bet is to patch ours for the time being. Thanks, - Jeff -- Ubuntu Live 2007: Portland, OR, USA http://www.ubuntulive.com/ "A rest with a fermata is the moral opposite of the fast food restaurant with express lane." - James Gleick, Faster _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
