Lack of interest Allow ability to add 'noindex' to member profile pages

[TheBigK]

This is surely going to get a mixed response - because member profile pages do drive some traffic to our own forum. However, a LARGE percentage of member profile pages have no useful content. Wouldn't it be nice to have an option to add 'NoIndex' to all the member profile pages ( or select usergroups ) ?

I can achieve this through inclusion of 'noindex' in template; but I think it's better if there's a checkbox to do that .

 

[Moshe1010]

Even if they have no content, why are you so concerned that these profiles would be indexed?

 

[erich37]

Privacy.

 

[Chris D]

Privacy should always be in the hands of the users. And they can already control that:



And you as an admin can also control that as a default:



So from a privacy point of view, you can control whether the content is indexed or not already.

From a purely "Because I want to" point of view, you can make any page no follow, by adding this line to the page's content template:

<xen:container var="$head.robots"><meta name="robots" content="noindex" /></xen:container>

I'd argue there probably doesn't need to be any additional controls in the core.

 

[erich37]

Privacy should always be in the hands of the users. And they can already control that:

I am actually talking about the "User Avatar".

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/show-only-default-avatars-for-guests.1795/

 

[Chris D]

That's not what this thread is about, but ok.

 

[DJ XtAzY]

I say it's for SEO purposes. Member profiles don't really contribute anything useful to searches.