# Excluding user profiles in robots.txt (or allow edit of file)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/excluding-user-profiles-in-robots-txt-or-allow-edit-of-file/15886>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014 年5 月 22 日 22:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excluding-user-profiles-in-robots-txt-or-allow-edit-of-file/15886 "2014-05-22T22:30:37Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2014 年5 月 23 日 06:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excluding-user-profiles-in-robots-txt-or-allow-edit-of-file/15886/4 "2014-05-23T06:15:06Z")

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Yeah, we can just disallow indexing of user pages for now via robots.txt as a quick fix.

At best they would just be links to topics the user participated in, and maybe an “about me” on the rare chance they filled it out.

Go ahead and do that tomorrow @neil.

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