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Posted July 12, 20204 yr As IPS has no robots.txt file, how do we instruct search engines not to archive or keep cached copies of your site? (Without affecting normal indexing of course)
July 12, 20204 yr You can just create your own robots.txt file and upload it via FTP to your host, or if you’re using CiC, just create a new page called robots.txt
July 12, 20204 yr Author Thanks @Daniel F. If I create a Robots.txt page just to include the "noarchive" tag, doesn't that interfere somehow with whatever is IPS native? (No idea how IPS tells bots what to do, so I better ask before going ahead).
July 12, 20204 yr Author Upon a second look, it looks like robots.txt files only work with allow and disallow, so I may not be able to add noarchive like I could in a meta tag. So, that probably means editing a template then?
July 13, 20204 yr Typically you would edit globalTemplate and add whatever you want to the <head> of the document, or you can use the live meta tag editor to add meta tags to your site (if you set the URL as "*" the tags will apply to every page).
July 14, 20204 yr Author Typically you would edit globalTemplate and add whatever you want to the <head> of the document, or you can use the live meta tag editor to add meta tags to your site (if you set the URL as "*" the tags will apply to every page). I'll do that, thanks!
