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wkitty42
10th of March 2007 (Sat), 20:53
i'd love to see a method of keeping search engines out of the slideshow... i've a few multimedia movies on my site and, for one thing, the slideshow simply doesn't/can't work properly with them... the other is that the default slideshow timeout can't work with a 5 minute video on a 384k up dsl line ;)

i've seen some things where it is possible to do something like this via robots.txt but i haven't had a chance to try to work out how to prevent access to scripted parameter functions like the slideshow...

Pekka
11th of March 2007 (Sun), 10:51
You can always add META tags into slideshow template.

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NONE">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

Not all bots read that, though. See http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html

You can change the slideshow timeout in SETUP_settings.php. EE can not know if the video has been displayed or not.