Recent content by jgaulard

Check your "Latest Activity" page under "What's New." That's generally where the /posts/ URLs come from. That page and also emails that are sent to members, but Google wouldn't know about them. If you scroll down the Latest Activity page and roll over each and every URL in each post, you'll see...

Perfect. Just remove the robots.txt block.

Hi - If your goal is to have all member profile pages removed from Google's index and to never see them returned in Google's search results in any way, then yes, you are correct. Remove the block from robots.txt. There is nothing more you need to do. You don't need to add noindex to any...

Hi - I'm not sure what you mean. If you leave the pages unblocked, Google will crawl them to see that they should not be indexed. If you block them, Google won't be able to crawl them to see the 403 response code.

Hi Jeremy - You wouldn't happen to have something that would work for the bb_code_tag_quote and the reaction_list_row templates, would you? The current timestamp code doesn't work. My goal is to only show the /goto/ and /reaction links to people if they've been added before a certain date...

I'd like to move the dash from behind the prefix to in front of it. Any ideas?

Have you tried it? I don't think it's any different than the instructions above. Give it a shot and let me know. If it doesn't work, I'll take a look.

That's a great question and one I have been meaning to answer in a post for a while. Let me write it up so I can explain everything thoroughly and when it's completed, I'll link to if here. It shouldn't take too long. UPDATE: I wrote the post with the instructions in it. Please take a look...

Like I said, I'm no expert. Far from it. I will tell you though that over the past two years, I've blocked the internal 301 redirects (threads/thread-name/post-123 & /goto/) on various sites and when I did that, my Valid Pages increased steadily in the Google Search Console. I distinctly recall...

Nothing has changed. I'm just waiting for more Search Console updates to see what happens. As @JoyFreak mentioned, robots.txt is above. You can ignore the: Disallow: /forum/search-forums/location Line. That's my own setup that's not standard with XenForo.

I just wanted to make an update to the above post. Google Search Console was refreshed a day or two ago and it seems as though the positive trend continues. Take a look at these graphics for one of my sites. Again, I blocked many directories that shouldn't be crawled and it appears that valid...

I am no expert, so please do your own research regarding this issue. I've found that @djbaxter gives excellent advice here, so take what he says seriously. I have something to add though. I was just reading a similar thread to this and I replied there. Please take a look...

Hi - I don't know what your robots.txt file looks like, but my sites have been suffering from a low page indexation rate since I installed XenForo (2019 - transitioning from another CMS). I had a hunch that it was because of Google crawling a whole lot of unnecessary pages and I think I was...

That's strange. I've seen the search console warning right after I block something, but then it disappears after it falls out of the index. Are you using nofollow on the /goto/ links?

Unfortunately, there is no way to bulk remove anything. You can bulk remove the URLs from appearing in the search results, but you can't get them out of the index manually. If they're already blocked in your robots.txt file, they should slowly fall out of the index naturally. How long have they...