On 01/05/07, Michael Daly mikedaly@magma.ca wrote:
What about the use of "noindex" to prevent the indexing of old versions of pages? I read about this on (a somewhat out-of-date) chongqed.org
We do this, as far as I'm aware.
Apparently, they can use the "recent changes" pages too. I find that the search engines are frequently accessing recent changes, but I'm not sure how to stop that.
Special pages should all be emitting appropriate <meta> tags with "noindex,nofollow" set, so search engines *oughtn't* to be indexing or following links from these.
Rob Church