Commissioners: Please add this to report headers

BradC · 10-13-2014, 03:50 PM

We've had a few complaints from parents of prospects who Google their kids' names and have OOTP online league pages pop up. This confuses them, of course, and then they contact us asking that we pull their kids out of the game.

And they do have a point, especially if the ratings associated with the kid are poor, and they worry that scouts will see those pages and be affected by them somehow. (Scouts probably won't care, but as a parent myself, I understand that these people want their kids presented in the best possible light.)

Since there's no sense in online league player pages being indexed by Google and showing up in search results, we'd like all commissioners to add the following to the HTML code at the report headers. This will prevent online league pages from being indexed by Google and will alleviate headaches on our end.

File /templates/head_bits.tpl
Add this line to the meta lines:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

Thanks!

- Brad

byzeil · 10-13-2014, 08:11 PM

nevermind, I need reading comprehension and I think I understand now

bwburke94 · 03-04-2015, 03:08 PM

Will this be done by default for OOTP16 online leagues?

Spindel · 03-08-2015, 12:19 PM

I've had a few emails from people myself. Not parents, but fans saying stuff like 'I don't remember so and so playing for this team' or 'didn't so and so retire in 1997?'

10-13-2014, 03:50 PM	#1
BradC All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: northern CA Posts: 1,874 Blog Entries: 1	Commissioners: Please add this to report headers We've had a few complaints from parents of prospects who Google their kids' names and have OOTP online league pages pop up. This confuses them, of course, and then they contact us asking that we pull their kids out of the game. And they do have a point, especially if the ratings associated with the kid are poor, and they worry that scouts will see those pages and be affected by them somehow. (Scouts probably won't care, but as a parent myself, I understand that these people want their kids presented in the best possible light.) Since there's no sense in online league player pages being indexed by Google and showing up in search results, we'd like all commissioners to add the following to the HTML code at the report headers. This will prevent online league pages from being indexed by Google and will alleviate headaches on our end. File /templates/head_bits.tpl Add this line to the meta lines: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> Thanks! - Brad

10-13-2014, 08:11 PM	#2
byzeil Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: NJ, US Posts: 2,004	nevermind, I need reading comprehension and I think I understand now Last edited by byzeil; 10-13-2014 at 08:13 PM.

03-08-2015, 12:19 PM	#4
Spindel All Star Reserve Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Lambertville, NJ Posts: 755	I've had a few emails from people myself. Not parents, but fans saying stuff like 'I don't remember so and so playing for this team' or 'didn't so and so retire in 1997?' __________________ Union League Baseball Commissioner since 2011.

03-04-2015, 03:08 PM	#3
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,470	Will this be done by default for OOTP16 online leagues?