Comments on: Update to Robots Meta plugin

By: Aman

Aman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:45:15 +0000

Hi, I have got a big problem. I am using wordpress 2.7 and a few days back I updated the Robots-meta to latest version. After that whatever I have posted is not getting indexed in google. Earlier it used to get indexed in less then 2-3 hours.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:18:00 +0000

Also regarding the "Robots Meta" tab that appears while in the editing page. I am wondering if it is possible to make that tab/widget available to only administrators? I am making a wiki style site, and I don't want to provide too many options for users that will just confuse them when they are editing posts.

By: Dumber

Dumber — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:11:28 +0000

Sorry - dumb question...

I noticed that after installing your plugin that the 'Robots Meta' tab appears when editing a post allowing me to assign follow/nofollow or index/noindex.....

Is this the rule I want to apply for the post itself or for all the links out of the post `?

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:29:41 +0000

Can I see this somewhere?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:08:52 +0000

We installed the plugin but then deactivated bc carrots ">"< appeared at the top of our header. Do you know why we would have carrots appear?

By: Sergey Dmitriev

Sergey Dmitriev — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:27:18 +0000

How do I uninstall robots meta 1.1?
I want to upgrade to the new version, but somehow robots meta destroyed the plugins menu in wordpress. If I click on plugins menu, I always land on robots meta plugin configuration page, and I dont have the possibility to save (I get "You cannot edit the Robots Meta options." error). Any suggestions about how can I clean up this?

By: Dez

Dez — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:48:15 +0000

I can't seem to figure out what is probably simple and obvious:

To verify my site with the various Webmaster Tools, what syntax do I use to have Robots-Meta insert the verification code for me?

So for example, Google gives you the following to add to your header:

{meta name="verify-v1" content="LotsNumbersAndLetters" /}

(I changed < to { so they'll show in the comment, of course.)

What part of that do I add to the appropriate field in Robots-Meta for it to work properly. I could swear I've tried everything but apparently my capacity to handle basic deductive reasoning must be faltering.

Can anyone resolve this little mystery for me?

Thanks!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:42:26 +0000

Joost,
I noticed that after installing your plugin that the 'Robots Meta' tab appears when editing a post allowing me to assign follow/nofollow or index/noindex. By default nothing is selected for a post. Do I have to manually select 'follow/index' for my new post? Does this apply for editing a post that was there prior to adding Robots Meta (nothing selected)?

Thanks for the plugin and your help!

By: Scott Clark

Scott Clark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:19:54 +0000

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By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:58:36 +0000

@Scott Clark: which other plugins are you using? i'm afraid robots meta is colliding with one...

By: Scott Clark

Scott Clark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:36:38 +0000

I was so hoping to use this but with my WP (latest) install, this plug in

a) disables WSYIWYG editing on posts - other authors want this...
b) interrupts normal admin operation in Wordpress

So I've had to remove it :-(

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:44:42 +0000

Hi Joost, i would like to bring this problem with robots meta plugin to your attention... http://wordpress.org/support/topic/160648 even i faced the same problem.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:20:43 +0000

Thanks for the great plugin and your effort :)

By: Nicola Boschetti

Nicola Boschetti — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:05:58 +0000

It's ok Joost,

i am just wondering why the SeoChat Page Analyzer reports an error on that missing tag...

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:35:21 +0000

Hi Nicola, there really is no need to EVER add index,follow to a page.

By: Nicola Boschetti

Nicola Boschetti — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:27:18 +0000

Hello Joost,

this is Nicola again.

I analyzed my website with a "page analyzer" on seochat.con website, and it tells me that it should be suggested to put the tag "index,follow" on the homepage... you told us that, in case of missing tag, this is the default option, but what do you think of letting your plugin placing it?

Thanks, Nicola

By: Nicola Boschetti

Nicola Boschetti — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:27:15 +0000

Hello Joost, thanks for your reply :-)

Well, i did some more text, and i must admit that the problems is not your plugin ;-)

The problem is:
1) i upload my own .htaccess file
2) when i go to Manage->Pages and i edit 1 page, just by pressing the "save" button, the .htaccess file it reverts to the default one (the default permalink)

Sorry for posting this here... btw are you aware of my problem?

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:11:23 +0000

@Nicola: it's not supposed to be writing the .htaccess then, really sure the problem is in there?

By: Nicola Boschetti

Nicola Boschetti — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:35:59 +0000

Hello Joost,

thanks for the plugin.

It works out ok, but there is a problem: i have inserted custom rules in my .htaccess file, when i edit a post putting the "noindex,follow" tag (using your plugin) it reverts the .htaccess file to a previous settings, erasing my customization.

Is there a way for the plugin to write the .htaccess file while keeping intact my own rules?

Thanks in advance :)

By: peter

peter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:42:40 +0000

First thanx for this plugin!!
I Still have two questions:
1. Is it possible that the 2.9.2 update still shows up as 2.9.1 in the wordpress plugin page?
2. I cantÂ´t manage to get the categories set to no follow on my homepage. They are still follow. Everything is fine on the single posts sites. Any idea? Thanx in advance!