Robots - embedded web client

[Gordon]

Hi
I have solution that I want to roll out to 3000+ web sites which includes a simple registration form. In order to contain the whole process in Servoy, I have embedded the Servoy Form in and iFrame or Joomla Wrapper depending on the platform. This presents the issue of the various spiders/robots etc crawling the site and indexing the solution form. We do however want the rest of the page read but ideally not the Servoy form - does anyone know of a way of restricting this

eg
<dontlookhererobots!>
<iframe id="blockrandom" name="iframe" src="http://clipper.clickdigital.com/servoy-webclient/ss/s/Order2cash/" width="100%"height="650"scrolling="auto"align="top"frameborder="0"class="wrapper">
This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does not support inline frames.</iframe>
</dontlookhererobots!>

There is an amusing side benefit to these forms being indexed and that is we are getting a lot of hits and high ranking on the back of it. However both we and the various clients are not too keen on this continuing !!

Best
Gordon

[leemcneil]

Your best bet is to make sure that the Servoy form path is in the exclude list in the robots.txt file.

So, your robots.txt file @ "http://clipper.clickdigital.com/" should have this in it:

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /

That should be enough to get it to not index the content.

However, if you don't want it to index the text within the iFrame tags (ie: This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does not support inline frames.), you need to do that using Javascript - probably JQuery.
So, for that to work - I'd replace the iFrame with a DIV, and then add an iFrame into the DIV dynamically using Javascript. Something like:

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<div id="blockrandom" width="100%" height="650"></div>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready( function(){
    $("#blockrandom").html('<iframe id="blockrandomiframe" name="iframe" src="http://clipper.clickdigital.com/servoy-webclient/ss/s/Order2cash/" width="100%"height="650"scrolling="auto"align="top"frameborder="0"class="wrapper">This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does not support inline frames.</iframe>') ;

}

</script>

Lee.