Description on users profiles

Discussion in 'vBulletin Discussions' started by Michael, Sep 1, 2009.

  1. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    What on earth is up with Google indexing our members profile along with the poor description that comes with it.

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    <meta name="description" content="Michael is a Awesome Admin in the Teen Forums - Teen Chat, Teen Help, Teen Advice & Support. View Michael's profile." />
    That is what we have indexed for the text for any given members profile with the name changed and any user title. I hate it, what is the best way to change this to something better?

    I would hope that there is a way to just allow Google to index the actual content on members profiles like any additional content youve allowed your members to add to theirs.

    Wouldnt something like this be more appropriate:

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    Welcome to my profile. I am Michael one of the Administrators here at TF. I live with my girlfriend Kerry, who is also an Administrator here. If you need any help please contact one of us or a moderator and we will be able to help you out.  
    I am also wondering if this is down to vbseo or not too. I have wrapped the above in h1 with some hope Google will see profile welcome messages more important than a meta description.
     
  2. Ryan

    Ryan Regular Member

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    Ahar. I had this one, however I used to let users have there welcome messages on there profile and Google was indexing them. So some users had dirty welcome messages :P

    We were getting a right load of odd users visiting the site. I don't see why they bother doing it.
     
  3. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    Lmao, of course you should make sure the welcome messages are moderated to some extent ;)

    I can see a flood of ring me on 9023480 coming soon :unhunh:

    I just really dislike how the default is, it isnt really making much sense. I am gonna have a poke around the memberinfo template at the top and see what I can find.

    EDIT: Seems to be in the headinclude template.

    EDIT: Nope its vbseo!!!
     
  4. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    Got it, it was an option in vbseo and I have changed it :D

    This is what it now looks like instead:

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    <meta name="description" content="View Michael's profile at teenforumz! Welcome to my profile. I am Michael one of the Administrators here at TF. I live with my girlfriend Kerry, who" />
    
    
    
     
  5. David

    David Regular Member

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    I just block the memberpages from being indexed since 90% of them don't add value to my indexing :D
     
  6. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    That is a good idea. Thats the thing, I have the profiles blocked in robots.txt yet theyre still being indexed. We allow guests to view profiles though if that could be affecting it.
     
  7. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    I just disallow the viewing of profiles by guests (and essentially search engines) as well. They don't add value at all.
     
  8. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    Thats the thing, teens love their profiles and if they look enticing and see the socialisation they may sign up :D On any other types of forum I dont think hiding them is a problem.
     

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