Set user on robot "nofollow" with special plan

Hi there,

actually all our registered users are indexed by Google. We like to exclude users of a special plan. User in plan A should be allowed for Google index, but not the user in plan B. Is there a possibility to set the robot for a plan?

Joomla 2.5
CB 1.9.1
CB Subs 3.0

Thank you!
Michael

We've nothing to provide such a feature. All URLs to them would need to be marked as nofollow then their profile URL would need to be excluded from the robots.txt. In addition to this you'd need to set the meta header. The header is the easiest as it can be done with CB Auto Actions and its Code action with Method set to Header. You'd need all 3 to reliably block robots. Even then they don't have to respect this (some search engines don't).

Hi Krileon,

thanks for reply.
It´s especially the googlebot I like to restrict.
An other idea could be to integrate a special "code" into the URL of "plan B"-Users. Is it possible to "add" a word or code after the username in the URL? For example:

Normal url:
http://www...../username

url with added word (-plan-b):
http://www...../username-plan-b

With this additional word I can set a parameter in the Google Webmastertools, that they don´t index all urls with "plan-b" in it. That would help, too.

Can I do this with the auto actions or an other tool?

No, altering the URL like that is not possible. That would need to be specifically coded into the router. Another option is using a 3rd party SEF extension to rewrite the URL as needed, but I doubt such extensions will interact with CBSubs in any way.