![]() ![]() It leads to a reduction in engagement, while not hiding the topics from search engines at all. Notice that nofollowing this link won’t make googlebot ignore it: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of linksĪt the same time, unlisting the topic leads to a reduction in user engagement, because the users won’t be able to jump from one topic to another inside the community. So the search engines will also find all the unlisted topics. And we need to send users to the topics, so we add a link to it in the blog post. It will be hidden in the community listings, but you can still access the topic if you have the direct link. t/title-of-the-topic/id Unlist topicsĪ unlisted topic is still visible to search engines. The URL structure of the topics are all the same, so we can’t block them by simply adding a “disavow” line in robots.txt But this would only remove the category itself from the search results and not the topics, which is the main problem here. The most common solution presented, is to add a “ disallow: /c/category/id” in robots.txt. ![]() I saw a few topics about this issue, and they all had suggestions that doesn’t actually fix the problem. Let me go a few steps ahead, and address some common responses. This way, everything is still there to the users, but ignored by search engines. When the checkbox is marked, a noindex tag would be inserted in the header of all the pages related to it: the category itself, topics, pagination, etc. Hide Topics from this category in search results. ![]() The solution would be a simple checkbox in the category configuration box: Then the comments from the topic are also printed below the blog posts, which generates duplicated content (same content across multiple URLs).īoth are huge SEO problems, that could lead to a domain penalisation. Two URLs with the same title is not a good thing, since it steals relevance from each other in search results. I’m using WP-Discourse and it is great! But for every new blog post, it creates a topic with the exact same title in my community. I’m struggling with the same problem, here. Continuing the discussion from SEO for Thin Content or Modify Meta Tags: ![]()
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