How do I edit in Magento <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,FOLLOW" /> for individual pages

Question

I am struggling to find in Magento a way to edit the <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,FOLLOW"> for individual pages.

Does anybody know how to? Please help.

Thanks

Answer 1

You should be able to do so on a per module basis, via layout xml files.

For example, should you need to set robots to NOINDEX, FOLLOW, on the Popular Search Term page:

1. Locate the layout (module) for this particular page -> e.g. app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme/layout/catalogsearch.xml

2. Locate your page: <catalogsearch_term_popular translate="label">

3. Add the following lines along with other references:

   <reference name="head">
       <action method="setRobots"><value>NOINDEX,FOLLOW</value></action>
   </reference>
   

You could do the same for any other module (checkout, sendfriendemail etc...) for which you would need to change the default robots value.