Noindex (or kill?) theme search feeds

[jonoaldersonwp]

Theme search URLs generate dedicated RSS feeds. E.g, for a themes search for the word 'hotel', the following examples also exist:

​https://wordpress.org/themes/search/hotel/feed/rss2/
​https://wordpress.org/themes/search/hotel/feed/

If there's perceived value in these, we should keep them but add an x-robots HTTP header with a value of 'noindex, follow'.

If these are trash, we should 301 requests to these structures to the search URL in question (e.g, ​https://wordpress.org/themes/search/hotel/feed/rss2/ to ​https://wordpress.org/themes/search/hotel/).

[tellyworth]

Is it fair to say that all RSS feeds should have noindex,follow headers?

[tellyworth]

In 9638:

Theme dir: noindex search RSS

See #5067.

[jonoaldersonwp]

Replying to tellyworth:

Is it fair to say that all RSS feeds should have noindex,follow headers?

More or less, excluding any feeds used to fuel Google's podcast indexing services (which I presume we don't have any of)

[dd32]

Considering this fixed.