maz Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 I'm thinking this forum should be made invisible to search engines. I just looked up my domain and SpamCop is listed on the first page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 While I agree with you on this, there may have been a business decision to allow this. It is one of the reasons we frequently caution users not to post email addresses within their messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 I'm thinking this forum should be made invisible to search engines. Rough call. On one hand the search tool in this application basically sucks, so the search engine listing are a real benefit. Getting the knowledge out on finding / fixing servers and reducing the spam spew is a good thing. But yes, sometimes it sems like too much data is available, e-mail addresses as an example ... I just looked up my domain and SpamCop is listed on the first page. A bit unqualified, but ... someone searching for "your product" wouldn't normally execute that search by putting in your domain name (if they had that, they'd more likely simply go to your web-site) ... Not mentioned is what search engine was involved, how many other places link to your site, etc. One could take the other approach in that having that "one more" link to "well known" site also has the tendency to raise your other page placement rankings on some search engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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