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Meta data robots twice

Added by Samuel Quevauvillers almost 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Start date:
02/23/2021
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Hello,
I have found the 2 topic abouts Metadata header tags.
https://redmine.webtoolkit.eu/boards/2/topics/16644
https://redmine.webtoolkit.eu/boards/2/topics/15203

I have set the meta tag for robots to "index, follow" in the wt_config.xml, but I always get a second meta tag in my header
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

I get this as final :

<head>
  <meta name="robots" content="all"/>
  <meta name="description" lang="fr" content="Forestimator: outils cartographiques pour la gestion des forêts Wallonnes">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

How could I get rid of it ?
Many thanks

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 #1

Updated by Korneel Dumon almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved

As the second link says, Wt will only add this second header when it does not recognize your browser as a bot. This can be a bit tricky to test, try something like this:

curl  -H "User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1" http://localhost:8080

The list of bots for which this works is also in wt_config (under <user-agents type="bot">)

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 #2

Updated by Samuel Quevauvillers almost 4 years ago

Ok thank you but there is still something I don't understand. How can I allow bots to index my site ?
I notice with the the curl cmd that if I run it as bot or not, I always get a <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

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 #3

Updated by Samuel Quevauvillers almost 4 years ago

Ok now this is working, I had to set back the bot list in my wt_config.xml : 

<user-agents type="bot">
            <user-agent>.*Googlebot.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*msnbot.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Slurp.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Crawler.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Bot.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*ia_archiver.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Twiceler.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Yandex.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Nutch.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*MJ12bot.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Baiduspider.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Ezooms.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*Sogou web spider.*</user-agent>
            <user-agent>.*AhrefsBot.*</user-agent>
    </user-agents>
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 #4

Updated by Roel Standaert over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Closed
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