By xpersonas on

I use taxonomies and terms on my Drupal site, but I'd rather not have Google and link checkers tracking those pages.

Is there anyway to prevent them from showing up in such results?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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yasheshb’s picture

yasheshb commented

here's a nice article on it.

http://drupal.org/node/22265

Disallow: /category

(or any paths that are for taxonomy/term)

hth.

yashesh bhatia

Yashesh Bhatia

caschbre’s picture

caschbre commented

Updating the robots.txt is the best way to keep them from search engines. If you also want to hide them from the users you can use the taxonomy hide module.

marcushenningsen’s picture

marcushenningsen commented

What about moving the /taxonomy/term/ pages alltogether?

caschbre’s picture

caschbre commented

What do you mean "moving the pages"?

If you mean changing the URL then you should be able to create different URL aliases for them. You may also want to check out the pathauto module that allows you to setup the default URL for each taxonomy vocabulary.

marcushenningsen’s picture

marcushenningsen commented

Sorry, I meant REmoving. =)

Is it possible to remove the pages alltogether? I may use taxonomy without wanting users to be able to see these pages.

caschbre’s picture

caschbre commented

Ah, hmm... that's a good question. My first instinct would be to make a view for taxonomy and then restrict access to that view but I'm not really sure.

marcushenningsen’s picture

marcushenningsen commented

I'd consider that a workaround, but I just tested it and it works. Thanks for the quick answer.