noindex not working

  • Resolved blindpet

    (@blindpet)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    The plugin readme says that you can create noindex links but I do not see an option to do so anywhere. My pretty links are showing up in Google’s search results and I would like to remove them, it is also supposed to bad for ranking. Is there a hidden option somewhere?

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  • Plugin Author cartpauj

    (@cartpauj)

    If you have the “nofollow” box checked, then Pretty Link will set the following HTTP response header:

    X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow

    You can inspect your links with a tool like this to see if the header is present or not: https://web-sniffer.net/

    It’s also a good idea to add a prefix to your link slugs like go/slug or out/slug and use a robots.txt file to disallow spiders on /go/* or /out/*

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