David.. Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Is this a good idea to do or not? Since profiles generally don't have any content like a topic would, it would make sense to stop them from being indexed by Google, right? What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 “Good idea” in regards to what goal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.. Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 5 minutes ago, opentype said: “Good idea” in regards to what goal? Preventing thousands of profiles from being indexed with little to nothing with value in them? I'm not very sure, I see it as if Google wouldn't want them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 It’s about what you want, not what Google wants. Indexed profiles can certainly generate traffic. But your users might not want to show up in Google searched for their (user-) name. But that depends on your site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.. Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 1 minute ago, opentype said: It’s about what you want, not what Google wants. Indexed profiles can certainly generate traffic. But your users might not want to show up in Google searched for their (user-) name. But that depends on your site. I don't really mind if they are indexed. I just see them and think that maybe indexing profiles would hurt the website's SEO. But I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I wouldn’t know why that should hurt ranking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.. Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 4 minutes ago, opentype said: I wouldn’t know why that should hurt ranking. Because profiles typically do not hold "quality" content like a topic would. And considering we have more members than topics, seems a bit off. I don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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