Introduction

This article provides instructions on how to set up policies for links. For full instructions on how to build a custom policy, visit Create a custom policy.

Custom links policies

This section provides instructions on how to set up policies to find specific links. These are located in the href="" section of the anchor tags on the domain.

To create this policy:

• Check the RegEx.
• Clear the Case sensitive box.

• Enter the following in the Query field and replace the word SEARCH with what you want to find inside the link portion:

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  href=("|').*SEARCH.*("|')

  For example:

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  href=("|').*foo.*("|')

  The query matches:

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  <a href="http://test.com/foo">here</a>
  <a href="http://foo.com/test">click</a>
  <a href="http://test.foo/test">click here</a>

  However, it does not match: 

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  <a href="http://test.com/test">foo</a>

  If the policy you need is difficult to create, contact Support for assistance.

Rule operators

• Starts with: Find any snippet starting with the inserted text.
• Contains: Find any instances of the inserted text when the text contains a single word.
• Contains words: Find any instances of the inserted text when the text contains multiple words. Use commas to separate the words.
• Contains sentence: Find any instances of the inserted sentence or text.
• Ends with: Find any snippet ending with the inserted text.
• Equal: Find an exact match for the inserted text or value. For example, “Monsido” - match. “About Monsido” - no match.

• Regex: Use regular expressions to define what you want to search.

  Note

  Regular Expressions in source-code exclusions are not 100% compatible with Web Governance policies. The languages are different (Java and Ruby).

• Conforms with: Use regular expressions to define the correct structure or form of the inserted value.
• Less than: Find any results less than the inserted value.
• Less than or equal: Find any results less than or equal to the inserted value.
• Greater than: Find any results greater than the inserted value.
• Greater than or equal: Find any results greater than or equal to the inserted value.
• (Meta header) Date age greater than: Find meta tags older than the inserted value. Choose the interval that matches the way your meta tag dates are written.
• (Meta header) Date age less than: Find meta tags younger than the inserted value. Choose the interval that matches the way your meta tag dates are written.
• CSS selector: Find the inserted CSS selector.

Rules

• Page HTML: Search for text in the entire domains html.
• Page URL: Set a rule for internal page URLs.
• Text: Search for text excluding CSS and HTML tags.
• Page title: Search for text in the page title where the title is not the header.
• Page title length: Define when the rule must apply for the title.
• Heading text: Search for text in headers (h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6).
• Heading text length: Define when the rule must apply for header texts.
• Meta header: Search for meta header tags that match the query.
• Meta header length: Define when the rule must apply for meta headers.
• Link text length: Define when the rule must apply for link texts.
• External link count: Define when the rule must apply for external links.
• File size: Search for files across selected domains.
• Image size: Search for images across selected domains.
• Image text: Search for images with this name.
• Image text length: Define when the rule must apply for image texts.
• Readability level: Search for text that is in compliance with a school degree.

Policies for links