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It's a pain trying to remove old references to domains, and I wonder whether NamePros should set up their robots file to prevent indexing of certain boards, particularly the appraisal board and the market place?
You had a few people give the same opinion, not just him.it would be great to unindex appraisal threads. the dude from Saudi Arabia just ruined my sale: namepros.com/threads/resolved.1136460/#post-7232176
If you ask for advice be prepared to get responses you don't agree with. .
it would be great to unindex appraisal threads. the dude from Saudi Arabia just ruined my sale: namepros.com/threads/resolved.1136460/#post-7232176
Appraisal - yes. Marketplace no. It is important for marketplace listing to show up on search as that will increase visibility.it would be great to unindex appraisal threads. the dude from Saudi Arabia just ruined my sale: namepros.com/threads/resolved.1136460/#post-7232176
I agree I’ve had to ask the seller to do that before. But also then as I believe you allude we have bidders who Quote the seller (and the quote contains the domain name) when making their bids and only the bidder may request to clean up these posts.
At the end of the day you may need cooperation from seller and bidders just to remove all references to the domain you just bought. I’ve done it - enlisted aid from multiple parties successfully.
Don’t forget about tags too - sometimes gotta get those removed as well.
In the old forum software that we used, the forum name was included in the URL. In the new software, the forum is not included in the URL, so it's not possible anymore to use robots.txt to block indexing of a specific forum.I wonder whether NamePros should set up their robots file to prevent indexing of certain boards, particularly the appraisal board and the market place?
You might consider using the members-only, non-indexed Professional Appraisals section next time.it would be great to unindex appraisal threads. the dude from Saudi Arabia just ruined my sale: namepros.com/threads/resolved.1136460/#post-7232176
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.The chat room only shows the most recent messages, so each time the index updates, all previous messages are replaced with the more current messages. It's basically noindex in the long-term, but in the short-term, some things may get indexed temporarily.And chat room should be noindex.
In short, NamePros services (marketplace, appraisals, etc.) are free in part because the content is indexed, which brings new buyers and sellers to it over time and keeps the machine running. Otherwise, NamePros would need to charge for its services to keep things operational and useful for members.I've had this discussion several times with NP's Admin. There is no way they are going to block the search engines from searching the marketplace. This is where a lot of the connections are made by the search engines. They are selling advertising to these visitors. They just are not going to cut off that juice just because it harms or makes it difficult for us Domainers. It's the price we have to pay for using their marketplace. If we don't like it, we can go elsewhere. I'm sorry if I'm the bringer of bad tidings. Or if I have misrepresented the position of NP's. As I understand it.
Professional Appraisals fits this description.The easiest way may be to require you must be logged in to read certain forums. If the software on thise site allows that, not only would it encourage more people to at least create an account, but it would also prevent indexing of sensitive forums without too much work on the part of the forum mods/owners.