Search engine bots should not index the report an abuse page

Jul

2010

I noticed that my forum is getting traffic from nasty people that are searching for porn or similar content on search engines.

Guess what web page from my forum was indexed on Google, for these nasty keywords... That's right, the report an abuse page...

Also, there isn't only one or two disgusting keywords that people are using to find this page from search engines,

There are a lot of different keywords...

I don't have any of this content on my forum. The only page that has the word, "porn" is the report an abuse page. ( If you don't believe me, I'll private message you a link )

I'm only going to private message a staff member if they'd like to know the keywords to find the 'report an abuse' page of my forum, on search engines.

So, I'm suggesting that search engine crawlers shouldn't index the 'report an abuse' link.

1 Master Marc, on 12/07/2010 at 18h29

bump...

2 MrMega, on 12/07/2010 at 19h26

Voted yes

3 jack1, on 12/07/2010 at 19h39

Yes.

4 Caihlem, on 13/07/2010 at 08h12

O_O

Damn right it shouldn't index that clown

5 Master Marc, on 15/07/2010 at 00h25

Thanks for voting, Mega, Jacky & Caihlem.

6 Master Marc, on 18/07/2010 at 02h03

Bump...

7 Darren1, on 18/07/2010 at 02h07

Voted yes

I donno why the techs would allow this in the first place O.O

8 Caihlem, on 18/07/2010 at 14h45

Probably a mishap :p

9 Doctor Inferno, on 18/07/2010 at 15h12

Forumotion should let us edit the robots.txt.

10 LH Justin, on 18/07/2010 at 17h17

Voted yes, that's a bit odd. Razz

11 Dumbledore27, on 18/07/2010 at 17h42

That 100 % must become true! I really don't want people search that and find my forum with those nasty words!

(Vote yes)

12 Master Marc, on 18/07/2010 at 21h52

Doctor Inferno wrote:Forumotion should let us edit the robots.txt.

I agree. But, this page is already blocked... Link : http://www.iwebbuddy.com/robots.txt

As you can see : Disallow: /report_abuse.forum

But, it's not stopping the link from being indexed from outside websites linking to it, beu

So, to fix the problem, meta tags that disallows search engine crawlers from indexing, should be added to the report an abuse web page :

Code:: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

PS. The amount of visitors that are finding this 'report an abuse' page, from searching for nasty keywords, are increasing everyday.

13 Master Marc, on 20/07/2010 at 00h55

Bump...

14 Master Marc, on 22/07/2010 at 23h44

Bump...

15 Master Marc, on 17/08/2010 at 21h12

Bump...

16 Rubber Ducky, on 17/08/2010 at 21h32

Voted yes :o That is kinda strange and shouldn't be happening.

17 The God, on 21/08/2010 at 07h35

A big Yes from me Laughing

18 SophieDophs, on 01/09/2010 at 17h25

I agree, it's daft that the bots should have access to it.

Voted yes.