Wordpress plugin for NoIndex? (and a lesson for newbs on why)
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Ok like most of you I'm using WordPress along with the All-In-One-SEO plugin. I love it and I don't want to change it. But I have run into a problem where Id like to have certain pages with NoIndex in the meta data. This popular plugin that so many of us use does not allow you to create NoIndex tags per page.
To make sure this thread helps people who don't understand, here are the reasons I need this:
1) NoIndex is a TAG that goes in your header, it tells Google not to index the specific page.
2) There are plenty of times when a marketer does NOT want pages indexed by Google. The most obvious (which apply to me) are:
- Thank you pages, such as after a customer opts-in and gets a freebie from you. You don't want that freebie to be public
- Special sales pages where special pricing is given. You don't want everyone to be able to find it
- Avoid duplicate content penalty. The duplicate content penalty is something that matters WITHIN YOUR SITE ONLY. Say you have 40 landing pages that are mostly the same but keyword optimized for slightly different keyworkds, and you are using Adwords (PPC) to send traffic, you would NOT want to index these pages because Google would see them as too similar and you'd get slapped with a duplicate content penalty.
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