How to stop profiles page to get indexed in search engines

itrcp

Hi All,

I did put my robot.text file in root with dissallow profile page but still its indexable how I can stop my profile page to get indexed in google .
one more thing my discussion pages are not indexable as I have checked with SEO Doctor plugin for firefox any help please ?

vrijvlinder

you could possibly add some jquery similar to this but not all the links to the profile use the same class all the time. Some times it is .Author a and others span.LastCommentBy a etc

    <script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    $('a.ProfileLink[rel=nofollow]');
});
    </script>

hgtonight

Not sure a jquery fix would help as it would require the crawler to run JS to see the modified links.

Good thought though.

labastro

Hello,

I am also looking for a simple way to add a nofollow attribute for profiles links in topics lists pages (for Vanilla 3.x):

Thank you for your help.

ianw5555

Just add the no index and/or no follow tags to the profile page

 <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

labastro

Thank you @ianw5555 for your answer.

I have already done this, but I would like to prevent search engines from following these links (in order to not to see false errors in the Google search console, for example).

ianw5555

Do you mean that you want these (internal) links to be nofollow?

labastro

Yes, exactly! 😉

I think this link is made here, in /applications/vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php:

echo ' <span class="MItem LastCommentBy">'.sprintf(t('Most recent by %1$s'), userAnchor($last)).'</span> ';