Applying Schema.org on the user profile page for improved author authority on Google

The tricky thing though is that we don’t even allow indexing on user pages.

Generally we see them as low value pages to add to Google.

Stack Overflow and a few other places do allow indexing here.

I guess a lot is depending on our strategy around user pages, they are very possibly a spam and abuse vector with mixed in privacy concerns.

Potentially if we only allowed indexing to particular groups and we had an HTML view that was better than just a blank page with a user name. Then this would make sense to build as part of this effort.

I guess a big question is how much value would a forum get from having inbound google links that land on user profiles?

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