Edit pages are still getting indexed by the search engines

Bug #448425 reported by IPP
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Open Library
Fix Released
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Lance Arthur

Bug Description

When doing a search for books or authors, the OL hits that come up include 'edit / change' page URLs. Those pages should not get indexed. Pls install a 'no-follow' tag or whatever it takes to *exclude* 'edit' pages from search results.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Anand Chitipothu (anandology)
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Lance Arthur (lance-arthur) wrote :

Added rel="nofollow" to all Edit tags in databar for production. Problem should not exist in upstream because we are using buttons rather than links.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: Anand Chitipothu (anandology) → Lance Arthur (lance-arthur)
status: New → Fix Committed
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Anand Chitipothu (anandology) wrote :

I've already added
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
to edit and history pages.

Changed in openlibrary:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Anand Chitipothu (anandology) wrote :

And to previous versions of all pages.
see http://openlibrary.org/sandbox?v=1

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