Re: [Tiki-devel] tiki.org: Wiki attachement are indexed is Search Engine

None of the content from this file will go into getting us better search rankings. And this file will be much harder to find if someone is looking for it if we block it with robots.txt,

Moreover, even if we block it with robots.txt, it still may show up in google search results. That is if another website or even our website links to this file, it still may be available in search results, it just won’t be indexed.

It would be much better to use a canonical link via HTTP headers. This way all the content and any links to this content get pointed and accounted for on the page is in use on. Search rankings grow instead of decreasing and it won’t show up in the search results in this bizarre way any longer.

Brendan


> On Oct 12, 2021, at 10:40 AM, Bernard Sfez via TikiWiki-devel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I found another one to block in Tiki robot file, the following link is among the 3 best results for Tiki in September 2021. 🥴
> Shouldn’t we not allow "/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php” by default ?
> 
> 
> https://tiki.org/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=855&page=TikiFestCEST&download=y <https://tiki.org/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=855&page=TikiFestCEST&download=y>
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernard
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