How to prevent robots from indexing user profiles

sabroso
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9 years 4 months ago #265623 by sabroso

How to prevent robots from indexing user profiles was created by sabroso

Hi there,

Is there a way to prevent robots from indexing user profiles (all CB profiles)? (CB 2.0.9 and Joomla 3.4.1)

I already set the CB config to only allow super users to visit CB profiles, but even though that would prevent from navigating to the user profiles some info could still be displayed in the search engine snippet, right?

Many thanks

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9 years 4 months ago #265656 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic How to prevent robots from indexing user profiles

Create a robots.txt file or edit your profile menu item in Joomla menu manager and under Metadata set Robots to No index.

I already set the CB config to only allow super users to visit CB profiles, but even though that would prevent from navigating to the user profiles some info could still be displayed in the search engine snippet, right?

Nope, the profile isn't accessible at all. No profile data is output unless you've a public userlist maybe, but then it'd just index that userlist page and not individual profiles as it can't reach the profiles.

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