On 01/05/07, Michael Daly <mikedaly(a)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 I read about this on (a somewhat out-of-date)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