From b4125630c83df5a881f4a426b69381b13565590e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: walsh9 <walsh9@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:23:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude search pages from indexing with robots meta tag
 instead of robots.txt (#289)

* Exclude search pages with robots meta tag instead of robots.txt
---
 pages/search.vue       | 5 +++++
 public/robots-prod.txt | 1 -
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pages/search.vue b/pages/search.vue
index 25029b18..d87138da 100644
--- a/pages/search.vue
+++ b/pages/search.vue
@@ -48,10 +48,15 @@ useHeadSafe({
 useServerHeadSafe({
   meta: [{ property: 'og:title', content: pageTitle}]
 })
+if (query.value) {
+  useServerHead({meta: [{name: 'robots', content: 'noindex'}]})
+}
 
 useChartbeat()
 useOptinMonster()
 
+
+
 onMounted(() => {
   $analytics.sendPageView({ page_type: 'search_page' })
   getSearchResults()
diff --git a/public/robots-prod.txt b/public/robots-prod.txt
index 75e65d70..9283414d 100644
--- a/public/robots-prod.txt
+++ b/public/robots-prod.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /mt/
 Disallow: /profile/
-Disallow: /search?q=*
 
 Sitemap: https://gothamist.com/sitemap.xml
 Sitemap: https://gothamist.com/sitemap-news.xml