Fixed Nofollow ?order=vote_score

[nrep]

Affected version

2.2.3

Question threads have sort links like "?order=vote_score" that are not nofollowed, which is causing lots of duplicate crawl URL errors in Google Search Console and takes up a lot of crawl budget.

 

[BT10]

The Q&A forum type is creating some SEO issues for us as well. I recently reported the schema markup here, and now I just discovered that the "?order=vote_score" is causing duplicate content. I hope the dev team can look into this and help fix these issues.

 

[Anatoliy]

causing duplicate content

damn.
will Disallow: */?order=vote_score$ in robots.txt help?

 

[BT10]

@Anatoliy Not at all. Technically speaking, that would be the alternative, but seen too many times that things still get indexed by Google even when I put a rule in the robots.txt. The ultimate solution is nofollow.

 

[Anatoliy]

what about these?

?unanswered=1
?unsolved=1
?your_questions=1
?your_answers=1

 

[XF Bug Bot]

Thank you for reporting this issue, it has now been resolved. We are aiming to include any changes that have been made in a future XF release (2.2.4).

Change log:

If a thread as multiple sort options, ensure the additional links are marked as nofollow

There may be a delay before changes are rolled out to the XenForo Community.

 

[Mike]

and now I just discovered that the "?order=vote_score" is causing duplicate content.

It's worth mentioning that this wouldn't be true. There is a rel=canonical tag present that doesn't include filters and that is how you prevent the same content from being indexed with multiple URLs.

Crawl budget would be a separate issue (though there isn't strictly a guarantee that nofollow blocks a search engine from actually following a link.

 

[BT10]

@Mike Thanks. You are correct on that. Sorry I didn't update my old comment. I saw that Google has decided to ignore those links due to the dedicated rel=canonical tag.