Stop Google Index of User Profiles

New Member Joined: Dec 01, 2014 Posts: 5

Hi everyone,
I recently acquired a website that is running PHP-Nuke. My users are complaining that their account profiles are being indexed by Google. If you Google their real name, their profile comes up. I was surprised that this is what is searchable... If you Google their username with the website name, their profiles do not come up.
I would like to add a no-follow, no-index tag to all user profiles. I assume this is something easy to do, if its a simple fix I would love to hear it, otherwise I'm willing to hire someone to complete the task.

Thanks in advance,
AC

Site Admin Joined: Aug 22, 2007 Posts: 1772

The problem is that the user-profiles are shown in public and if a user had stored his realname in the user-profile then google or other search engines can find it. I made a fix for this issue in RavenNuke but this is different from a standard PHP Nuke. Which version of PHP Nuke you are using?

With a check if a user is logged in you could hide/show the realname field in the public User's Info page or you could hide/show the whole content of the function userinfo in the index.php of the Your_Account module.

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:29 am

Thanks for your help. I know it has been a long time since the website has been updated... in the footer of the page "PHP-Nuke Copyright © 2004 by Francisco Burzi." You can check out the website, it's [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Thanks!
AC

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:23 am

This is only the Copyright Notice but not your nuke version. You are running an older version of RavenNuke. Wink

Check this and try to follow the steps:
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If you don't have a clue how you should do this then ZIP or RAR me the following files and send me a download-link via PM:

modules/Forums/viewtopic.php
modules/Forums/includes/usercp_viewprofile.php
modules/Your_Account/public/userinfo.php

Wink

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:24 am

Thank you

Is it obvious that I don't know much about this website. haha. It was dumped on me and now I'm trying to sort it all out.
Greatly appreciate your help, I'll take a look at your link

Cheers

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:48 pm

neralex wrote:

If you don't have a clue how you should do this then ZIP or RAR me the following files and send me a download-link via PM:

Would love some help!

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 5:07 pm

Answered via Email!