Hiding a story from search engines when using content from another property.

From time to time there may be a need to hide specific content from search engines.   This would be commonly requested when using stories copyrighted from other publications but shared to us for use.  If the story is popular or goes viral, the origin site would want the wider search engine traffic from a keyword search to be coming to their website as the originator of the content.

You can ‘hide’ the story from being indexed by search engines by adding a small code to the asset in BLOX / TCMS.

In the Other tab of the story asset, under custom properties, click Add

Then in the Name field, enter noindex and in the value field, enter True

If set to true, the article will feature a no index meta tag. In Flex it will show <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> in the Header.

Just hit save and proceed as normal otherwise.