noindex on specific page #4184
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Just add the tag directly inside the Markdown page. |
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No. That is not supported. But you can just use: ---
title: This is my homepage
description: I worked hard on this site
hide:
- navigation
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex, noarchive, nofollow">
# Document title |
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Even though meta tags are valid in the body of a page, I would personally not put a [EDIT: Found that the docs have an example with robots https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/reference/#customization ] In the mkdocs-nype theme I've added an option to add robots data via the page meta: Or another addition allows to input custom tags in the Those changes can be ported over via |
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Any reason why you shouldn't put |
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Given there is the HTML5 standard, which allows to put Well, I still believe there is value in putting hidden metadata into the header for web scrapers to stream text of the HTML file up to the end of the Perhaps this is a bad example which is unrelated, but I recalled an issue with LinkedIn, where the Social card images stopped working in the preview. I remember that when investigating some of them worked, while others did not. This could've been a back-end issue or a bad HTML parser, which didn't read the source properly, and made some "shortcut". Another such "shortcut" could be reading up to the
To answer the question, I'm a bad coder, which does a lot of hacks, so I can imagine making the mistake of not loading all of the |
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Hmm, yeah, so I'm on the fence here between adhering to standards vs. writing code that is as defensive as possible to compensate for the missing knowledge of other developers. I'd say for the Edit: To be clear, "missing knowledge of other developers" was not meant to confirm that you're a bad coder. It was meant as a general note that not everybody is familiar with the latest web standards, which might also be too much of an ask. You are, in fact, an amazing coder with deep knowledge of MkDocs internals, and for sure the king of monkey-patching 🤟 |
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I have a hidden page where I would like to add in the header
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,noarchive,nofollow" />The goal is to not have any meta for crawlers or google reading this page since we want it hidden. This page currently showing on the site map.
Is there a way to add this into the header on specific pages?
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