hey people, what's up?
First of all, my setup: Im running latest version of SE4, with only 1 plugin, classifieds, with Insignia Theme.
My site has classifieds and profiles set to PUBLIC, if i go to a browser, i CAN see the user profile page and classifieds, so far so good...
ISSUE:
I made a sitemap, uploaded it to Google....no profile page showing, and 50 pages showing : Login to your account....bla bla bla...
No classifieds like : title -> descripton....just shows the browse page meta info..
MORE :
I have around 490 urls like this in my sitemap, and in Google (66 results) :
TEST YOUR SITE:
You can test your site like this :
Google : site:yoursitehere.com
Bing: url:yoursitehere.com
Let me know if the issue is with my setup/site or bug from SE
Thx in advance
So far, what i tested, found...:
Robots file : robots.txt (default SE)
User-agent: *
Disallow: /application/
Disallow: /development/
Disallow: /externals/
Disallow: /temporary/
When using FETCH AS GOOGLE, this file will block every single css/js file possible, that means google will show everything plain text...popups, etc...
Insignia uses popup for signup/login and the Header Title as H1 tag.......so, google will fetch the link and H1 tag as page result.
At this point, my robots.txt file looks like this (don't try this at home) :
User-agent: *
When using FETCH AS GOOGLE, it will show exactly the same as if a user sees the page...now, im waiting for the result on site:mysitehere.com
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
Back to info...
After the test (robots.txt) i see google shows now 128 results:
Profile -> Profile User Name + Site Name | Site Description (should be Member description)
Classifieds -> Title + Description (good)
and around 6 pages with : http://XXXXXXXXXX.es/login/return_url/64-L2xvZ2luL3JldHVybl91cmwvNjQtTDJ4dloybHVMM0psZEhWeWJsOTFjbXd2TmpRdFRIY2xNMFFsTTBRJTNE
Weird....
Why not block login in the robots? Did that not work?
Hey Donna,
I updated now my robots.txt file :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /login/return_url/
Waiting for results....again....
Hope it works