SPIKE: Figure out a way to have specific pages in Dev Center be no index (both internal & external search)

[henryyamamoto-concur]

Requirements:

• Pages must be "no index" to external search engines and internal search

Determine if we can do this and how we'd do it.

[henryyamamoto-concur]

@howarddierking FYI. I modified an existing issue to be the tracker for the no index via front matter.

[meritmalling]

Just had a quick look a this, looks like the way to do this is setting a boolean in your front matter then injecting a meta tag in the template based on the truth of that value.

http://jamiecollinson.com/blog/how-to-noindex-pages-with-jekyll

[howarddierking]

@merittrompeter - yup. This is the same pattern that I implemented for having search ignore the preview branch (https://github.com/concur/developer.concur.com/blob/preview/_layouts/default.html#L16). You can probably just add a check to that same conditional for an additional front matter variable.

[henryyamamoto-concur]

The markdown files in this folder should be all "no index":
https://github.com/concur/developer.concur.com/tree/preview/api-alpha

[henryyamamoto-concur]

Using preview function and it seems to be working with no issues.