Ticket #427 (Fixed)Sun Oct 02 03:37:48 UTC 2016
Hide /forum/posts?page=xxx from search engines
| Reported by: | Tomasz Konojacki (2597) | Severity: | Enhancement |
| Part: | Web site: Beast (forum engine; forum pages) | Release: | |
| Milestone: | Status | Fixed |
Details by Tomasz Konojacki (2597):
Hello,
Sometimes I use google to search for posts on the forum. Unfortunately, results are often littered with the tons of outdated links to /forum/posts?page=xxx pages. They’re basically worthless. Their contents change rapidly and google isn’t able to keep up with them.
For example, if I search for “titanium bgr site:riscosopen.org” one of the first results points to https://riscosopen.org/forum/posts?page=105&pos… As of now, that page doesn’t contain anything related to my query.
It would make searching way easier if these pages would be excluded from the google results. Maybe “noindex” meta tag could be the solution?
Changelog:
Modified by Chris Mahoney (1684) Thu, November 24 2016 - 05:12:58 GMT
On a related note it’d probably be a good idea to exclude riscosopen.org.uk too; it gives an SSL error due to the certificate being only for .org and not .org.uk.
Modified by Jeffrey Lee (213) Fri, June 02 2017 - 22:12:56 GMT
I’m also seeing /forum/posts/search URLs turning up in Google, which isn’t very useful (I’m using Google to try and get away from the crap forum search!)
Modified by Sprow (202) Sun, August 15 2021 - 10:38:03 GMT
- Status changed from Open to Fixed
A nosey at robots.txt shows /forum/posts is excluded, and a quick test of a few search terms no longer returns results there as Tomasz first mentions.
