The bbpress member pages for forum replies like http://www.domain.de/users/name/replies/ are already indexed by google search.
I want to hide these pages from search result pages but my Yoast SEO Plugin does not support this.
I prefer using “noindex” instead of robots.txt

Do you have any idea to fix this issue?

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 10 months ago]

Hi,
There seem to be multiple pages on Google explaining this on how to set robots.txt, less on the noindex. But note that these are just guidelines for the indexers. The page is still accessible !

So why not going in protecting the profile for non logged-in users (an indexer is not logged-in!) ? You can check my ‘bbP Toolkit’ where I secure user profiles so they cannot be seen by non logged-in users.

Pascal.

[@originalo Participant 8 years, 10 months ago]

Making member pages accessible for logged in users only is an interesting workaround. Thanks a lot for this idea.
Nevertheless I wonder if there is any option to add “noindex” as meta-tag to each member page instead of using robots.txt?

[@originalo Participant 8 years, 10 months ago]

Push… any feedback?

[@originalo Participant 8 years, 10 months ago]

Any other idea? Any feedback is highly appreciated!

[@originalo Participant 8 years, 10 months ago]

I found an answer that solves my question here:

Meta Title for Profile Pages w/ Yoast SEO

For those who want to noindex in particular the replies of all mebers just add

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW” />

to the “user-replies-created.php” in the folder
wordpress > wp-content > plugins > bbpress > templates > default > bbpress

[@bimmerime Participant 8 years, 10 months ago]

Where does that code goes exactly?!! also wouldn’t you want to nonindex the “users subscriptions”, “favorites”, and “topics started” as well ??

[@kalusha Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

Hello,

so what is the right way to noindex member pages?

thank you

[@kalusha Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

I have now put this in robots.txt
Disallow: /users/

is that right?

hope anybody can help me..

[@kalusha Participant 7 years, 10 months ago]

any News???

[@pyoil Participant 4 years, 11 months ago]

If you are using SEO Yoast Plugin you can do the following to your functions.php to update the robots meta tags.

function noindex_profile($html) {
  	if (bbp_is_single_user()){
	  	$html = "noindex,nofollow";
	} 
	  return $html;
}
add_action( 'wpseo_robots', 'noindex_profile' ); 

If you are not using any plugin or don’t see any robot tags to update in your userprofile, use the below instead and the insertion will be made in the head

function noindex_profile() {
  	if (bbp_is_single_user()){
  	  	echo '<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW” />' ;
  	}
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'noindex_profile' );

Hope this helps.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 11 months ago]

great – thanks for posting your solution 🙂

[@rodgersnigel Participant 3 years, 3 months ago]

Hi,

I just did something similar for Rank Math SEO plugin:

/**
 * Sets bbPress user profile pages to noindex
 *
 * @param array $robots The meta robots directives.
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
    
    if (!bbp_is_single_user_profile()) {
        return $robots;
        }
    unset( $robots['index']);
    $robots['noindex'] = 'noindex';
    return $robots;
});

Cheers