Automatically delete from existing index

[kimd]

I have my indexer scheduled to run automatically each week. The only problem is that I must remember to go in and delete a number of pages from the index. I'd like to somehow do this automatically.

My website contains online help files. The webnav.html page contains the TOC and the indexer uses this to find all of the pages. I need it to be included in the indexing, but not in the final index as the TOC should not be included in search results. So, including it on the Skip Options tab excludes the bulk of my site during indexing.

Is there a way to automatically remove the webnav.html pages after each time it indexes?

[Ray]

Presuming the "webnav.html" page is your Start Spider URL, click on the "More" button next to it, then "Edit". You will now be able to change the spidering option for this URL. Select "Follow links only".

Zoom will now only follow the links from this page, but not index the page itself.

Other strategies that achieve a similar thing would be to use a robots meta tag or robots.txt file to indicate "noindex".

Hope that helps.

[kimd]

Thanks, Ray! I tried the noindex meta tag, and I'm still seeing webnav.html pages returned in my search. Am I doing something wrong here?

You can check it out, if you want. Go here: http://resources.arcfmsolution.com/zoom/search.cgi
Search for "ohda"
Toward the bottom of the search results, you'll see a couple "No Title" entries. Select either of these.
View Page Source on the webnav.html page and see the NoIndex meta tag I added.

[Ray]

Did you re-index after adding the noindex meta tag?

Did you upload the new index files after re-indexing?

You should also check the option to "Reload all pages (do not use cache)" under "Configure"->"Spidering options" to avoid indexing from an older cached copy of the page (before the meta tag was added).

Let us know if you've tried the above and it is still appearing.

[kimd]

It seems to be working now. I suspect the spidering option was the culprit. It's all good now. Thanks for the help!