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Empty archive pages (and author archives) should be noindex'd #577

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jonoalderson opened this issue Apr 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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Empty archive pages (and author archives) should be noindex'd #577

jonoalderson opened this issue Apr 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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[Component] Theme The frontend of the pattern directory, pattern lists UI Good First Issue Good for newcomers

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When an archive page contains zero results (such as https://wordpress.org/patterns/author/vrajeshthakkar/categories/text/), the <head> should include a meta robots tag with a noindex, follow directive.

This must be included in the server-side response, and not rely on client-side JavaScript.
@StevenDufresne StevenDufresne added the [Component] Theme The frontend of the pattern directory, pattern lists UI label Apr 24, 2023
@ryelle ryelle added the Good First Issue Good for newcomers label May 17, 2023
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ryelle commented Apr 18, 2024

Now that the theme is not using a JS SPA anymore, I'm checking this out and it appears that authors & search results have <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> regardless of empty result set. Is that correct?
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Super!
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