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This one is odd @codinghorror we saw the same thing with Bing on the user pages, should we just add that magic noindex meta tag here to double ensure user pages do not sneak in to indexes?

I guess, if it gets people to stop bugging us about it. It makes no difference in practice other than reducing the nagging.

Or we could put useful content on the search engine / text browser view of user pages, like links to your top replies and top topics :slight_smile:

People on here keep asking for MORE SEO JUICE and INTERLINKING every so often and I honestly can’t think of anything better along those lines than linking to the most-liked posts + recent posts you’ve made. Also, a forum user page is a valid search result for someone who wants to see your recent po…

We did the “please index the user page” conversation so many times though… in fact, to be honest, I think even mentioning this automatically raises the blood temperature in Jeff’s head automatically by 10 degrees. Let’s keep this focused on just properly excluding the user page so we can stop deali…

Hmm we could make it so TL2 and higher get indexed user pages @sam . That would be consistent with nofollow rules in posts too.

[imagem] sam: mentioning this automatically raises the blood temperature in Jeff’s head automatically by 10 degrees. It raised mine by more than a few mm Hg As someone that has been a moderator for several years and seen countless examples of what I call “profile spam” I beg, please no. To …

I do like the idea of allowing this to TL2, agree it is consistent with the nofollow stuff.

If you are adding the per-page tag it is almost the same code anyway, and we’d need to remove the robots.txt user path block anyhow.

Google reclamando – Indexado, embora bloqueado pelo robots.txt

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sam (Sam Saffron) Setembro 6, 2018, 5:41am 6

hmmm … no… we purposely do not want to index user pages. besides the spam factor what kind of value does this provide.

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