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Closed 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#4025 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Alter meta robots directive on closed support threads

Reported by: jonoaldersonwp Owned by: dd32
Priority: lowest Milestone:
Component: Support Forums Keywords: seo
Cc:

Description

The meta robots tag on closed support threads is currently set to noindex, nofollow. This should be changed to noindex, follow, to allow crawlers to follow internal links.

E.g., See ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/its-working-i-think/, ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-plugin-454/

Change History (4)

#1 @Otto42
8 years ago

  • Resolution → wontfix
  • Status new → closed

We don't want robots crawling internal links for 2+ year old posts. Support posts that old don't have much value.

#2 @jonoaldersonwp
8 years ago

  • Resolution wontfix
  • Status closed → reopened

We want them crawling links back into the rest of the site, through the navigation. We definitely want to open this up. These posts are linked to, and being crawled anyway.

#3 @dd32
8 years ago

  • Owner set to dd32
  • Resolution → fixed
  • Status reopened → closed

In 8044:

Support Forums: Tweak the robots tag to noindex,follow for old (>1 year) topics, and add it to closed topics (>6 months) without replies.

Fixes #4025, #4027.

#4 @joostdevalk
8 years ago

  • Keywords seo added
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