How to set a "noindex,follow" on 404 pages

[sebbi]

Hi, how can i add the "noindex, follow" meta tag on a default genesis 404 page without using plugins or any other extra stuff? Many thanks.

[nutsandbolts]

Try adding the following to the header scripts box in your theme settings:

<?php if( is_404() ) { ?>
 <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
<?php } ?>

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[sebbi]

Hi Andrea, thanks for your response, but this did not work proper, because it writes a second meta tag on all pages and posts. I tried to add this direct in the header.php of the genesis framework:

if( is_404() ) { ?>
 <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
<?php }

this works almost proper, the meta tag appears on the 404 page only, but this writes a second meta tag as well as your suggestion and i'm not sure, how google handles two meta tag with "robots" and of course, i should DO NOT edit this file under any circumstances. 😉

Do you have any different ideas?

Sebastian

[sebbi]

Hi guys,

does anyone here know how to put the "noindex" into the first "robots" meta tag?

With the solution written above, i've got two of them, and Google seems to be ignoring the second one, they are always crawling the 404 pages 🙁

So there is, due to theme settings, one robots meta with "noopd,noydir" and i want the "noindex" as well.

Thanks

Sebbi

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