Custom Metadata Properties
You can relate iCM metadata to your article which will be output in the page source. You could use this to add robots "noindex" meta tags to articles to exclude them from search engine crawlers.
Only values from the properties selected in your subsite configuration are output. iCM metadata is used for a wide variety of different functions so outputting all related metadata would not be appropriate.
Setup
In your Subsite Configuration, pick the properties that hold the values you'd like to output:
Next relate values from those properties to your article.
For example, an article with two metadata values related to it, one from each of the properties above:
Has the following added to the page source, with the property providing the name and the value the content, like this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
<meta name="audience" content="developer">
Sitemaps and noindex
If you are excluding articles from search crawlers you might also want to exclude them from your sitemap. See "Excluding Articles" in sitemaps for how to do that.
Overriding Values
This isn't currently a standard feature of our templates, but the documentation has been kept for reference.
The titles, descriptions and image can be overridden using article extras.
The "SEO" article extras can be added to any template extension form and the site framework will recognise the settings and output the updated properties.
The "Document title" field accepts the tokens [articleheading], [subsitetitle] and [subsitename].
For developers with access, the snippet is available from the iCM resources bundle. The three field names are DOCUMENTTITLE, DOCUMENTDESCRIPTION and DOCUMENTIMAGE.
