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Hi,

I am wondering why the following is output when no checkbox is selected for a particular page in Perch:

<meta name="robots" content="" />

Is this not telling a search engine to not index and not follow links?

There is a robots.txt file, which has the following content:

# robotstxt.org/

User-agent: *

so does this suffice for proper indexing and following of links for say, Google?
Garth Holmes

Garth Holmes 1 points

  • 6 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

That's empty, so it's not telling a search engine anything.

You can edit the default page attributes templates in the same way as any other Perch template. So just add there what you would like.
Garth Holmes

Garth Holmes 1 points

6 years ago

Thanks for that.

According to google SEO, the most restrictive robots are used, so if I hard coded for example:

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />

into a .php file, would this "override' what is coming from Perch, since I note; Perch has no options other than to deny.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Perch doesn't output anything you need to override. Are you talking about the example SEO page attribute template? If so, just change it to use whatever you want. It's an example only.