Fixed Guest Posting - Post New Thread Indexed By Google

[shyam123]

Affected version

2.0.7

Guest posting is enabled in my forum and I am facing a serious google indexing problem. Google started to index "Post thread in..." and "Post thread" thread pages. The indexed links are like this

www.example.com/forum/forums/-/post-thread
www.example.com/forum/forums/FORUM-NAME/post-thread

In previous version (maybe 2.0.1 or 2.0.2) their was also a "Reply to Thread" pages indexing problem. I reported it and developers added "noindex" tag to these pages and the problem was solved. So I think the "noindex" tag should also be added to "Post Threaad" pages.

 

[shyam123]

Now I solved this problem by adding following code in robots.txt file

Disallow: /forums/*/post-thread