Hi,
I just want to confirm that the “Message Inbox” and “Profiles” wont be crawled by google?
depends on your set up…
google wont be able to crawl the inbox because they wont have permission…
but depending on your guest permission for viewing profiles, they may see profiles… a crawler is just a guest, so if you are letting guests view profiles, they will too… If not, then google wont have permission to crawl them…
Ok thank you. Is it possible to guide me where to do the setup to ensure that google do not crawl the profiles?
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Maybe my question was wrong. Even though google might crawl the profile, it will not get indexed right? So it wont come up in any google results? > >
see: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/getting-started/controlling-access/
the permission you will want is ‘view members profiles’… for any guest permission sets applied to forums… if guests can view profiles, so can bots/crawlers…
crawl and index are really the same thing… and if google can crawl profiles, it will index them…
so if you dont want profiles showing up, you need to block guest access to them… as detailed previously…