#4754 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
Noindex profile pages which don't have any 'Activity' content
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| Milestone: | Priority: | high | |
| Component: | Profiles | Keywords: | seo |
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Description (last modified by )
Hiding profiles without 'Activity' content from search engines is part of a broader approach to 'solving' spam profiles on wordpress.org. See https://www.jonoalderson.com/wordpress/wordpress-org-toxic-profile-spam/ for long-form research and rationale.
Specifically, we should add a meta robots tag with a noindex, follow value to any profile which has no 'Activity' content (and to any associated profile pages; e.g., in the https://wordpress.org/support/users/ section).
Change History (7)
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5 years ago
- Summary changed from Add recaptcha to 'edit profile' pages to Noindex profile pages which don't have any 'Activity' content
Replying to tellyworth:
The description here doesn't seem to match the title, was this supposed to be two separate tickets?
Oops. There is indeed a different ticket for that. Updating now.
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5 years ago
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from new to closed
Feel free to create a recaptcha-on-profiles ticket.
At that point though, I think it's too late and we should consider other options (Akismet, etc)
This is now a duplicate of #4714 AFAICT
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5 years ago
- Keywords reporter-feedback removed
- Resolution duplicate deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
This isn't a duplicate; "No activity" is subtly different from "no content". This also captures the 'sibling' profile pages, which the other ticket doesn't. Therefore I'm re-opening this one, and closing the other.
I'll be adding a separate ticket for recaptcha on profile edit screens shortly, as per my post :)
The description here doesn't seem to match the title, was this supposed to be two separate tickets?