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Need to set Defaults to No Index, No Follow #3615

Closed PENTAGON4 closed 7 years ago

PENTAGON4 commented 8 years ago

Older versions of Yoast SEO allowed me to set post types and taxonomies to NoIndex,NoFollow but now I can't. I don't want links on the page indexed on certain post types and I have people who ad posts but don't have any seo skills so I have to set it for them. It would be easier if I could set this setting as a default for new posts.

I know it can be done manually and that's how I'm doing it now.

Rarst commented 8 years ago

Could you elaborate how had you handled it before via settings?

If your site has very specific requirements I imagine it might be easier just to produce noindex output with your own code, regardless of our plugin.

PENTAGON4 commented 8 years ago

I seem to remember a radio button or check box for Index / No Index and a radio button or check box for Follow, No Follow in the titles and meta, categories, and taxonomies tabs.

Rarst commented 8 years ago

Is this the setting you mean? It seems to be available just fine in interface.

yoast-noindex-setting

PENTAGON4 commented 8 years ago

Yes. I need to set noindex,nofollow as the default for Posts and Pages on several websites but can't. I have to manually set new posts for authors after they post on my blog.

The main reason is links in their posts often find their way into Deep Links(Bing). Also, I end up having to denote a sitelink URL (Google) sometimes randomly when a post is published. These are just two examples.

I know it's like that to help people more easily achieve better ranking. For a few of my blogs not having a checkbox for both means a lot more work because I have to manually select nofollow on each post.

Rarst commented 8 years ago

I think the nuance I didn't get here is that you want nofollow too. Not sure if we want to provide an UI option for that, will mark issue up for consideration.

PENTAGON4 commented 8 years ago

Yes. That's it. I could measurably more with it: index,follow index,nofollow noindex,follow noindex,nofollow

Thanks for the consideration.

PENTAGON4 commented 8 years ago

Radio Buttons might be better for each.

PENTAGON4 commented 8 years ago

Possible functionality: RADIO BUTTON index noindex

RADIO BUTTON follow nofollow

Pcosta88 commented 8 years ago

Please inform the customer of conversation # 116398 when this conversation has been closed.

lupetalo commented 8 years ago

@Rarst Any news on this. I also want to set noindex and nofolow for a taxonomy and do not have nofolow option

atimmer commented 7 years ago

Closed after architects discussion.

Pcosta88 commented 7 years ago

@atimmer Can you elaborate more on the rationale? Is it because having the default be index, follow is good for UX as having an SEO plugin implies you want pages/posts to be indexed? So setting the defaults to something else may not make sense?

lupetalo commented 7 years ago

@atimmer ?????????????

atimmer commented 7 years ago

We have closed this simply because we read it quickly and decided that Yoast SEO never had an option to set noindex, nofollow in that exact combination.

We will be changing the UI for all post type settings in the future then we will also see if we can add UI to set index/noindex and follow/nofollow more granularly.

lupetalo commented 7 years ago

Maybe you should read slowly then. If this can be done via filter then it certainly can be done as an option. Whatever...