rel ="nofollow" - my little forum

Hi Alex,

just discovered by chance that my profile in mlf2 is indexed by Google. This is not a good idea...
It's not possible prevent indexing in a robot.txt as it was in v1.x:

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /contact.php
  Disallow: /user.php

Robot.txt calls for correct (complete) URIs; both lines below

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /index.php?mode=user&show_user
  Disallow: /index.php?mode=user&show_user=

will not work.

Therefore another method must be applied.
At least all links to 'index.php?mode=user' must be extended by rel ="nofollow". It's quite common in other forums and also standard in Wikipedia to use this method for all external links too.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=96569&topic=8522
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

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Cheers,
Alfie (Helmut Schütz)
BEBA-Forum (v1.8β)

Hi Alfie,

At least all links to 'index.php?mode=user' must be extended by rel="nofollow". It's quite common in other forums and also standard in Wikipedia to use this method for all external links too.

...but also controversial. Moreover, a link to index.php?mode=user could also come from an extern page without rel="nofollow". To be sure the user area won't be indexed you need to set "User area" to "accessible by registered users only".

Alex

Hi Alex!

...but also controversial. Moreover, a link to index.php?mode=user could also come from an extern page without rel="nofollow".

Theoretically yes, practically no (at least Google "found" my profile not through an external link). I was quite surprised to see private data (like my birthday) accessible by a net-search.

To be sure the user area won't be indexed you need to set "User area" to "accessible by registered users only".

Would youl please do so here? Thanks.

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Cheers,
Alfie (Helmut Schütz)
BEBA-Forum (v1.8β)

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