More WordPress SEO: robots-meta update

09 September 2007 Joost de Valk 9 comments, leave your own!

After reading Halfdeck's post about Third Level Push, which Roy pointed me at, I decided to add the necessary code to the Robots Meta plugin, since the code example Halfdeck gave was for an older version of WordPress (the wp_list_cats function he uses was deprecated in WordPress 2.1).

It's quite easy, you check the appropriate box and it nofollows the category listings on either the single posts or the single pages. With that, another thing I'd been working on, suggested by Michael Gray, made it to release as well: the latest version supports editing of your robots.txt from within WordPress, if you've made the file writable.

I've also moved over to the WordPress.org plugin repository to handle the downloads, subversion etc. for my plugins, because this will allow for auto-update notification starting with WordPress 2.3 as well. So to download, you should go here.

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8 Responses to “More WordPress SEO: robots-meta update”

  1. By Stijn Vogels Mon, September 10th, 2007 at 07:37

    This certainly seems worth a try, since I've been manually editing robot.txt to make sure certain pages are excluded. Getting rid of double indexed pages can be hell, even if you use their webmaster tools.

    Also, I noticed some spam on css directory, inspirational sites. Unless you're into poker, that is.

  2. By Joost de Valk Mon, September 10th, 2007 at 08:41

    Hehe Stijn, I'm into poker ;)

  3. By Deejay Mon, September 10th, 2007 at 14:08

    another poker lover here :-)

  4. By SEO Carly Tue, September 11th, 2007 at 04:26

    Hello Joost,

    The download located here is empty: http://yoast.com/wordpress/permalink-redirect-wordpress-plugin/

    Has this been merged in to your latest Meta Robots Plug-in or is it still a seperate download?

    I checked your Wordpress.org profile and you have only got the Meta Robots listed. Myself and a few others are very keen to download and use your Permalink Redirect Plug in as well.

    Keep up the good work with the developments mate and thanks. :)

  5. By Joost de Valk Tue, September 11th, 2007 at 07:46

    SEO Carly: nope the permalink redirect one isn't merged. Note btw that you'll get that "for free" in wordpress 2.3, is has canonical URL's built in.

  6. By SEO Carly Tue, September 11th, 2007 at 12:53

    Excellent thanks Joost :)

    It's also good news Wordpress has finally addressed the Canonical problems. "Out of the box" SEO is the single biggest thing that lets the platform down.

  7. By Peter Fri, January 4th, 2008 at 19:44

    another nice plug, that fixes the meta description and keywords:
    http://www.thetutorial.org/wordpress/oneclickmeta/

    really like that one!

  8. By Wanda Tue, January 8th, 2008 at 17:23

    Great post. Thanks for that last link too.

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