Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter

Kevin Mullins — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:14:33 GMT

Thanks Stefan - have been strugling with this recently.

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re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

Seed — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:12:57 GMT

Is there any problem in removing this tag? why is it there in the first place?

re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

Stefan_Gossner — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:59:48 GMT

Hi Seed,

it is there to allow authors to decide if a specific site/page is allowed to be indexed by search engines or not.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

Harmjan Greving — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:27 GMT

When I add a (second) browser file besides compat.browser. I see no changes in my web application. SharePoint continues using the settings from only the compat.browser file.

I would like to have the following browser files active:

- App_Browsers\compat.browser

- App_Browsers\MyControlAdapters.browser

Is this possibe?

re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:21:06 GMT

Hi Harmjan,

that's what I did.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

Steven Van de Craen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:26:23 GMT

Harmjan (and others), if've just run into the same issue and the fix is to open the compat.browser in Notepad and save it (no need to change anything). This will force reloading the browser files. If you have multiple browser files already present you might need to repeat for each one.

HTH

re: Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines - using a Control Adapter (last update: April 11th)

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:21:26 GMT

Hi Steven,

the RobotsMetaTag controls emits the settings configured in "Site Actions" - "Site Settings" - "Modify all Site Settings" - "Search Visibility".

Cheers,

Stefan