This problem should be a trivial fix but is an issue for search engines...

The problem is that when an ad is published, it appears not only in the block but also as a node in itself (page view). The problem is, Google indexes this and it is effectively search engine spam. Furthermore, on our site we use the advertisement module to advertise internal pages and trick click-through locally. The problem is that the node version of the ad ends up competing with the actual target page in Google.

A possible quick solution would be to add the 'no index' meta tag to the node page. Alternatively a hack would be to use pathauto + robots.txt.

Hope this helps!
Chris.

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Jeremy’s picture

Version: 5.x-1.6 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned » Jeremy
Category: bug » feature

I'd like to review the no index meta tag idea -- bumping to the latest development version.

Jeremy’s picture

Feature committed, and enabled by default.

Jeremy’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed
chrism2671’s picture

Great work! Thank you! :-)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.