Controlling SEO Indexing on Companion Site with robots.txt File

Scott Baldwin

Is there a way to control what is indexed or not by SEO on the companion site? e.g. robots.txt file

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Zach Hawtof
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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 Baldwin
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I was thinking more of an option that enables you to display the feed in the sidebar but exclude from SEO.
Zach Hawtof
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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
Scott Baldwin
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Not that I can think of. If I want it in the companion site it makes sense to display it Like your thinking
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Scott Baldwin
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Or split into two options -- one for Nav bar and one for SEO
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Zach Hawtof
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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 Baldwin
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Understandable. Right now I'm more interested in managing the SEO side of things
Zach Hawtof
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Sounds good. Should be a quick and simple fix. ETA is 1-2 days
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Stephen Cook
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Hey Scott Baldwin! In the recent release we separated this into two Feed settings:
Unlisted from SEO
Show feed in sidebar menu
Stephen Cook
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Unlisted feeds are disallowed in robots.txt and excluded from sitemaps
Scott Baldwin
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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.
Stephen Cook
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By the right, do you mean this part?
Scott Baldwin
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Correct
Stephen Cook
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Would you prefer to hide that feed list altogether?
Scott Baldwin
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Yes, it's duplicative IMHO. The descriptions already show up on the feed pages and the navigation is already available at the left
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Scott Baldwin
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Leave the right rail as the join/posts/members, share, and leaderboard
Stephen Cook
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Gotcha! I'll add the ticket.
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Stephen Cook
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Hey Scott Baldwin! We added the ability to enable/disable components under the Home Page settings of the Companion Site, including the Feeds Tile Menu list.
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Scott Baldwin
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Works great, thanks for this!
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