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Looking for noindex mod or system
Arantor:
--- Quote ---Guests can see important information of active members or visit there websites directly if the feel their posts
helped them to find solutions and want to find more about the members.
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Their websites are shown next to posts or in signatures, whichever users prefer. Don't need to go to the profile for that.
--- Quote ---Second, if Google index the profile, Google users can find them in search results. This can be useful
for a whole variety of reasons such as: if people want to buy a product from an active forum member with a
active profile, they can check their reputation and also check their forumposts and see what they've talked about.
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I'm not sure that's really a good measure, no matter what your site is. If someone is already looking to buy, they're going to be a member (and thus have access to profiles) but I can't see it being a big issue for someone to use Google to find that person. Odds are they'll be long drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
In any case, again, if you want people to be able to look around, they'll register and do it that way.
--- Quote ---Also, we add an option for our members to add some description on the profile page (just in normal text) where
they can show who they are and what they do. This adds more content to the profilepages and more text for Googlebot to find.
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That still requires people to put something in and again it's almost certainly going to be lost in a sea of irrelevance, it's just not what people will generally search for.
James---:
Okay. You have your standpoint, I have mine. I respect your opinion, but that's not going to change anything.
I'm looking for some help to place the noindex meta tag at the appropriate places. The question stays the same actually:
Where do I have to put this noindex metatag in the stats and display files?
After which code?
Arantor:
That's the problem, it doesn't work like that. The noindex has to be added in the master template - which applies *everywhere*.
You haven't said what version of SMF you're using and whether you have any other mods that add new areas to the profile area or not.
Kindred:
Well, the best way to get your question answered would be to post in the correct board, first of all. This is not a comment nor feedback on SMF, so why did you post here?
Second of all. If you are using SMF 2.0.2, the system uses meta tags to define the base urls and thus will recognize and not penalize for duplicate content.
Arantor:
Actually, it will penalise you for duplicate content here because the canonical tag doesn't point back to the threads from the posted content. Mind you, there will be penalties for the entire profile area anyway because so much of it is generalised boiler plate.
Would still be easier to simply hide those aspects from guests then it would to fart about with getting noindexes in place.
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