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Anonymous
January 26, 2017
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Set default metadata in coded templates

  • January 26, 2017
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99% of Confirmation pages or Thank You pages do not and should not be indexed by search engines. I've tried many ways to set a default page title, meta description and meta robots value for these pages but they get overridden upon approving the landing page. My primary concern is the ability to set a default value for the meta robots values. IE. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">.

The background behind this concern is if users can find my page via a public search engine, they could skew and break my conversion tracking.

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    jkyles
    Level 4
    January 31, 2017

    I completely agree!! Having users who can find TY pages via search engine messes up the conversions. It's easy to forget to make the change when cloning programs, but having a default will help.

    Justin_Cooperm2
    Justin_Cooperm2
    Level 10
    February 8, 2017

    There's not a simple way for us to automatically know how you will use a template, but there's no reason you can't add the <meta> line inside your own templates. Have you tried that? Alternatively, you can just edit the values on an individual landing page using the method described here: http://docs.marketo.com/display/DOCS/Edit+Landing+Page+Title+and+Metadata 

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    Anonymous
    February 8, 2017

    Hi Justin -

    This is a suggestion for adding the feature of being able to set a index value in the template itself. I understand that each template could be used for different scenarios, but we'd like to be able to change a default value for all pages created by the template. We have coded in the value manually, however it gets overridden by Marketo's default settings. And yes we can manually change the value everytime, however when you are using Marketo on a large scale, creating 100s of confirmation pages, it would be nice to not have to worry about going in and manually updating this every time.

    Thanks,

    Brancen

    Justin_Cooperm2
    Justin_Cooperm2
    Level 10
    February 8, 2017

    That's a bug that it doesn't interpret the LP Template <meta> tag. I will file a ticket.

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    kh-lschutte
    February 6, 2020
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