[Imc-web] hidden posts on google

[Daniel S. Lewart]

Meghan, Mike, et al,

On Fri Oct 15, 2004, Mike Lehman wrote:

 > Mr. Sword also points out something that a few of us have known about,
 > the fact that hidden articles appear in Google searches of our site.
 > If there is some technical fix that can be applied to Dada to prevent
 > such articles from being picked up by search engines, I would assert
 > that we should do so, given that fact that easy access to such hidden
 > articles reflects badly on UC IMC, since most of them are violations
 > of our editorial policies. Given I have no idea how difficult such a
 > proposition to modify the site's software would be, I'll leave that up
 > for geekier types than me to discuss. I am curious how others feel
 > about this situation.

On Fri Oct 15, 2004, meghan at ucimc.org wrote:

> I agree that if we could stop hidden posts from coming up in Google 
> searches it would be MUCH preferable to deleting them.

I don't have time to work on this, but here are two pointers to get
someone started:
     Remove Content from Google's Index:
	http://www.google.com/remove.html
     The Robots META tag:
	http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#meta

Cheers,
Dan