excluding a page from the search results page

hqweb0 · Post by **hqweb0** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:42 am

Hi,
is there a way to index a page so its linked are followed and indexed but remove that page from the search results page?
Thanks.
Niamh

Post by **jason112** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:05 am

If you have control over the page, you can do it within
the page itself by adding a meta-robots value in the <head>:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

Otherwise you can use Exclude By Field to match the URL exactly and select "Links Only".

Post by **mark** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:52 am

Actually you want to *exclude* "Pages Only" to exclude the matching page's content but follow it's links.

hqweb0 · Post by **hqweb0** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:24 am

Thanks. I tried exclude by field to match url and then to exclude pages only, and although the page itself is not coming back in the search results, neither are any of the pages linked to.

hqweb0 · Post by **hqweb0** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:24 am

in fact, i used the meta-robots instead and that worked. thanks