How to add "noindex" tag to a specific post/page

[hyaena_swine]

Hi!

I am running v3.1.9.

What I want to do is make one specific forum post as 'noindex' for Google.

In other words, I need to add this code

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

To the head html of one forum post only.

The rest of the forum is just fine. Simply put, for reasons I won't go into, there is one particularly sensitive post on the forum that I don't want to be indexed in Google. I know I could just delete the post, but I would rather not do that.

The page itself is in the format:

http://www.sitedomain.com/forum/viewtop ... 10&t=18710

So, how can I do that?

Thanks!

[janus_zonstraal]

Block that forum for bots is the only option.
ACP=> permisions => forum permissions => select "bots" and "forum" => set to "no "

[hyaena_swine]

Thanks... but this will block indexing of the ENTIRE forum, which is NOT an option for this case.

Any other creative hack that can provide a solution ?

[david63]

Put it in its own forum with no bot access.

If the post is already on your board then it is probably too late anyway as the bots will have already found it.

[_Vinny_]

You can try this code:

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<!-- IF S_TOPIC_ID == '18710' -->
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<!-- ENDIF -->

18710 is topic ID. Add this code before </head> in styles/template/overall_header.html. Or you can create a simple extension to prevent file editing

[hyaena_swine]

Thanks Vinny - I will give that a try!!

Excuse what may seem a silly question, but I notice the IF statements are wrapped in 'comments'. Should I remove those if I am injecting it into the html file ?

Cheers!

[david63]

Excuse what may seem a silly question, but I notice the IF statements are wrapped in 'comments'. Should I remove those if I am injecting it into the html file ?

No - that is phpBB template syntax

[_Vinny_]

Complementing what david posted:

This is the phpBB Template syntax. This will basically make the code executable only if the topic ID is 18710.