Adding 'NoIndex Meta' to Prestashop Module & Search pages.

[reallyitsme]

Hi

Looking for a fix for the PrestaShop platform

Look for the definitive answer on how to best stop the indexing of PrestaShop modules such as "send to a friend", "Best Sellers" and site search pages.

We want to be able to add a meta noindex ()to pages ending in:

/search?tag=ball&p=15 or /modules/sendtoafriend/sendtoafriend-form.php

We already have in the robot text:

Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /modules/

(Google seems to ignore these)

But as a further tool we would like to incude the noindex to all these pages too to stop duplicated pages. I assume this needs to be in either the head.tpl or the .php file of each PrestaShop module.?

Or is there a general site wide code fix to put in the metadata to apply' Noindex Meta' to certain files.

Current meta code here:

Please reply with where to add code and what the code should be.

Thanks in advance.

[EricaMcGillivray]

I'd implement canonical tags for your duplicate content problem instead of noindex tags. This is the recommended practice for duplicate content.

As far as pages that you don't want indexed, when you use robots.txt to accomplish this, Google can/will still put the URL & title in SERPS. In order to stop this, you do need to put meta noindex tags on every page.