Controlling SEO Indexing on Companion Site with robots.txt File
Is there a way to control what is indexed or not by SEO on the companion site? e.g. robots.txt file
Zach H.··We have those controls set at the Feed/Channel level where you can mark it as “Unlisted”. What level of control would you be interested in?
Scott B.··I was thinking more of an option that enables you to display the feed in the sidebar but exclude from SEO.
- Zach H.··
Good to note! Is there ever a case you’d want to hide a feed from the navbar? We might have been overzealous when we created the Unlisted option. My current thought:
Make Unlisted only relevant to SEO and not to the navbar
- Zach H.··
We might bring the option back in the future but only if a customer requests it. I VERY much don’t want to repeat our ways at Salesforce with overcomplicating controls
- Scott B.··
Understandable. Right now I'm more interested in managing the SEO side of things
Hey Scott B.! In the recent release we separated this into two Feed settings:
Unlisted from SEO
Show feed in sidebar menu
Unlisted feeds are disallowed in robots.txt and excluded from sitemaps
- Scott B.··
Cool on the unlisted, I've enabled. Navigation sidebar -- would rather display on the left, but hide from the right rather than removing all together.
By the right, do you mean this part?
- Scott B.··
Correct
Would you prefer to hide that feed list altogether?
- Scott B.··
Leave the right rail as the join/posts/members, share, and leaderboard
Hey Scott B.! We added the ability to enable/disable components under the Home Page settings of the Companion Site, including the Feeds Tile Menu list.
