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  • June 5, 2015 at 6:22 am #454926
    miketica

    Hey guys,

    I have found couple of threads on this, but I can’t figure out how to change the theme’s meta robots settings on a page basis. This will be very useful for having separate metas for ppc and seo pages, for example. For PPC I am interested in having noindex, follow, noarchive, but since I will have multiple different pages for the same keyword(for split testing) I would get penalized for having duplicate content. I also use different links(tracking software) for PPC that I don’t think would work for SEO. I know I can use some SEO plugins, but that just creates duplicate, conflicting metas.
    Is anything like this possible?

    June 7, 2015 at 5:03 am #455576
    Josue

    Hi!

    Please note that this is not a theme-related question. That being said, as far as i know robots.txt is set per domain, so no, it’s not possible to set robots.txt on a per-page basis.

    Regards,
    Josue

    June 7, 2015 at 5:39 pm #455647
    miketica

    Hey Josue,

    Thank you for your reply. You guys are awesome and patient, even with not theme related questions ;)

    Nevertheless, this is what I am talking about:

    <meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow” />

    I think this is defined in the theme’s files and I need to take out the index property. There are a lot of plugins that allow you to define different metas on a page basis, such as SEO plugins or add to head plugins. But, if I use one of those, I will have 2 meta robots, one defined by the theme with the index property, and one defined by the plugin with a noindex property. I don’t mind the follow. So, if it is possible, where can I completely remove the function that defines these metas or how can I modify it?

    Thanks.

    June 7, 2015 at 11:11 pm #455675
    Josue

    Hi!

    I see, well there’s a filter available for that, you can paste the following on your child theme functions.php (or Functionality if you don’t have one), for example this will remove the meta tag altogether:

    add_filter('avf_set_follow', function($meta) {
	$meta = "";
	return $meta;
});

    Or to target a specific Page:

    add_filter('avf_set_follow', function($meta) {
	
	if ( is_page( 22 ) )
	{
		$meta = '<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />' . "\n";
	}

	return $meta;
});

    Best regards,
    Josue

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