Best way to Selectively No Index Some Products

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I keep reading articles that I should change the product descriptions that I get from manufacturers, as I could be SEO penalized due to duplicate content.

I am in the process of rewriting the most popular products, but for items that I don't want to invest the time in rewriting, articles are suggesting I set them up as no index. What is the easiest way to set some, but not all of the product as no index?

Also, for Hikamarket, if the product is listed on the Vendor page and on the main site, is that going to be considered duplicate content as well?

If I paste the code below into the the file, I get a 404. When you say using a "image and title" item layout, where do I check that setting?

<a href="<?php echo $link;?>" title="<?php echo $this->escape($this->row->product_name); ?>" <?php echo $this->row->nofollow;?>>

To clarify, "nofollow" is the name of my column.

I am not sure I understand. I'll explain what I did. If that doesn't work, I'll set up a test server and make the changes so it will 404.

I have a custom field labeled "No Index" associated with a column name for my product called "nofollow"
I set the default value to equal rel="nofollow" (pic attached)

I then go to the listing_img_title file of PRODUCT under DISPLAY->VIEWS for the front end of my specific template

I replace

<a href="<?php echo $link;?>" title="<?php echo $this->escape($this->row->product_name); ?>">

with

<a href="<?php echo $link;?>" title="<?php echo $this->escape($this->row->product_name); ?>" <?php echo $this->row->nofollow;?>>

should the nofollow above be No Index?

I'm an idiot...not sure what I did differently, but it's working now. Sorry to waste your time.

One last question. Anyway to make sure that I set up the "nofollow" to actually working properly?

Doesn't look like what I did worked. I see "nofollow" for some social links, but not a product.

view-source:http://www.modelmisconduct.com/index.php/shop/product/hosiery-1565

Hi Nicolas,

I just wanted to follow up on my prior post, as it does not look like the changes I made are working.

Doesn't look like what I did worked. I see "nofollow" for some social links, but not a product.

view-source:http://www.modelmisconduct.com/index.php/shop/product/hosiery-1565

Create a custom product field via the menu display>Custom fields with two values rel="nofollow" and empty.
Then, in your products that you don't want to index, select the rel="nofollow" choice for the custom field.

Hi Jerome,

Thank you for responding. Perhaps I am unclear.

I keep reading articles that I should change the product descriptions that I get from manufacturers, as I could be SEO penalized due to duplicate content.

I am in the process of rewriting the most popular products, but for items that I don't want to invest the time in rewriting, articles are suggesting I set them up as no index. What is the easiest way to set some, but not all of the product as no index?

Hi Jerome,

My Question is if there is a way to set <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> on individual products? Perhaps using the method you guys suggested with custom fields?

Hi,

To add a meta tag on some products, you can indeed use custom product fields, create one for example meta_noindex with a default value set as "false", then in the product edition page change the field value to "true" for the desired products. Don't display it on frontend.

And edit the view "product / show_default", then add code like:

<?php
if($this->row->meta_noindex == 'true'){
  	$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
	$doc->addCustomTag( '<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />' );
}
?>

Just to confirm, if we WANT the product to be indexed/crawled, the the noindex value should = "false"?

What is the best way to confirm we did this correctly?

I set item 4016 to true