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.

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Voted yes

Yes.

O_O

Damn right it shouldn't index that

Thanks for voting, Mega, Jacky & Caihlem.

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Voted yes

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

Probably a mishap :p

Forumotion should let us edit the robots.txt.

Voted yes, that's a bit odd.

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

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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,

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.

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

A big Yes from me

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

Voted yes.

Bumping to move this suggestion to the first page.

Exactly is that page only visible to staff?  If yes, bots should not be able to see it.

Honestly I think that page should just be removed. The only reports I have ever got from there was trolling or harrassing and somebody claiming a code I posted was theirs(it wasn't).