Posted by Paul Furman on 01/04/07 21:24
Seems to be a .htaccess issue, I added this line:
Options -Indexes
Although I'd prefer to simply prevent search engines from indexing. I
probably have some folders in there which are now inacessible.
Paul Furman wrote:
> I've had this web site up for years and I don't know maybe a couple
> years ago i added a more advanced php driven system under edgehill.net/1
> many of the images are annotated or at least the title gives an
> indication of the location and date. I just did a test and was able to
> find a keyword under the new /1 section but google images doesn't see it
> at all. The problem I think is the galleries are set up as subfolders
> and the php files format the gallery so I've got all these indexless
> folders which are basically garbage for a web browser:
>
> What should look like this:
> <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Oakland/2005-11-05-pinehurst>
>
> Is indexed like this:
> <http://www.edgehill.net/1/California/Bay-Area/Oakland/2005-11-05-pinehurst/>
>
>
> On my other baynatives site I added a line in the longest irrelevant
> page to prevent indexing that like such:
> <meta name='googlebot' content='noarchive, noindex'>
> and that works like a charm but the edgehill.net site as far as I know
> does not directly point to these nested content folder except in the php
> address [?SC=go.php&DIR=]
>
> I'm not opposed to people viewing raw directories, sometimes that's
> useful to point to an image or file without all the formatting but I
> don't want them indexed in search engines.
>
> Any Advice?
>
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