Noindex_ttl clarification

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According to the help site, we can set the…

Max age (in seconds) of dynamic content before it receives a “noindex” meta tag…

Can I get a clarification of what “max-age” means? For events, does the “age” start at the start of the event or after the event has passed?

For example, if I want to add noindex to events the day after they occur, would I set the noindex_ttl to 0 or 86400 (seconds in 24 hours)?

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Sure Jon – the “age” starts at 0 on the editor-selected date (or date/time, for events) of the item.

For instance, News stories just have a date, so if your news story is dated January 15, a noindex_ttl of 86400 would mean it starts getting a noindex tax on January 16.

For events, we can also have a start time as well, so that would mean an event January 15 at 1pm with a noindex_ttl of 86400 would have a noindex tag starting January 16 at 1pm. Or, you can set noindex_ttl to 0 and it will get noindex “the moment it’s passed,” so to speak. Hope this helps!

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@karl Thanks for the clarification. I added the following to public.config.php, so events will get noindex after 24 hours.

$_LW->REGISTERED_WIDGETS['events']['custom']['noindex_ttl']=86400;

I’m not sure it is working though. Here is an event that happened on Monday - Yuja: Getting Started · Angelo State University. I don’t see the noindex meta tag in the source code.

Is there a process that runs on a schedule to add the tags? Or am I doing something wrong?

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Hi Jon,

I see what you mean—taking a closer look, it appears that the /live/events version isn’t getting that noindex applied.

However, when I checked that event directly from the Calendar, which uses the /calendar/events URL here: Yuja: Getting Started / Events Calendar · Angelo State University, I do see that noindex is getting applied.

I’ll flag this up for the team to take a look at those different scenarios—Thanks for pointing this out!
Rachael

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Interesting. I hadn’t even checked the calendar pages yet. I just assumed noindex would get added in both places though.

Let me know what you find out. I can maybe add some xphp in the event details template to add noindex there if necessary, in the meantime.

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Hi Jon,

I believe we’ve got this tracked down now, and we’ll be including an update in our next LiveWhale release to cover both the /live/events and /calendar/event scenarios for including the noindex.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
Rachael

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