System - Meta Robots

Add more Meta Robots options to Joomla Metadata parameters.

Joomla
Plugins
Meta Robots
v5.0.3
Joomla! 3/4/5

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A woman in the forums asked "Why can't I set noarchive in meta robots?" I thought to myself, yeah - what she said.

Although a little complicated, it turns out that it can be done with minimal fuss. This plugin extends the follow/nofollow + index/noindex options to include unavailableafter, notranslate, noimageindex, noydir, noodp, nosnippet, and noarchive.

That was the old plugin - the new-for-J5 plugin is more advanced in every way.  I have completely rewritten the plugin to implement every meta and X-Robots-Tag option published by Google.  I even went so far as to look for any additional tags that might be useful and implemented them too.

developers.google.com - crawling-indexing
Conductor.com Academy

Using these two sources as guides, I constructed the plugin to offer every available option, while simultaneously preventing conflicting options from being applied, such as index and noindex at the same time.

Not only that, but I managed to answer a question I asked YEARS ago.  Can you cause a page to disappear from the Google index?  For years, the answer I always received was "No, not without removing them manually using tools like the Search Console" (paraphrasing, obviously).  However, while researching for this rewrite I discovered unavailable_after. Applying this meta robots tag with a date will cause Google to, and I quote "Do not show this page in search results after the specified date/time."  I know this isn't usually desirable, but I have a few applications for it - specifically event pages where I want people to see future events in the SERP instead of past events.

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Features

  • Adds 7 11 additional robots meta tag options
    • all, none, nosnippet, noarchive, indexifembedded, max-snippet: [n], max-image-preview: [size], max-video-preview: [n], notranslate, noimageindex, and my personal favorite - unavailable_after: [date]
  • Optionally includes the X-Robots-Tag
  • Works in:
    • Global Configuration
    • Articles
    • Menu Items
    • Categories
    • Weblinks (and categories)
    • Newsfeeds (and categories)
    • Contacts (and categories)
  • Just for fun, I made the global config options underlined in other areas of the site where this plugin runs, so you know ahead of time what the default is.  You can see this in the screenshots.

  Download the System - Meta Robots Plugin version 5.0.3

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