No-Index Thread Option

[glaxxon]

I was just thinking it would be great if the OP of the thread had an option to post a thread with an option to enable no-index, i.e the thread won't be picked up by search engines and get indexed.
I am not sure about the technical aspects of this, nor whether it can be implemented, but it would be a great feature to have.

Many users don't want their domains indexed in google for many reasons.
What if your perfect end-user ready to shell out $xxx or $x,xxx for a name is researching domains on google, finds your firesale thread of $25 and buys that name off you?
What if you put your name in the appraisal section and you get responses of $xx? Will the end-user not be more careful?

Anyways i'd think this will be a great thing to implement.

 

[Jeff]

I was just thinking it would be great if the OP of the thread had an option to post a thread with an option to enable no-index, i.e the thread won't be picked up by search engines and get indexed.
I am not sure about the technical aspects of this, nor whether it can be implemented, but it would be a great feature to have.

It would seem to me an issue of customization for any one particular thread/post/member ... and to what extent I am not sure from a pure coding perspective; would you be willing to pay NP$'s for this individualized feature ... and, more generally, do you think there is broader demand across the community for this option/customization (and what would be the fair & reasonable cost in our currency, NP$'s)? :gl:
IYHO.

Kind regards,
Jeff

 

[RJ]

Interesting suggestion. This mat be a good alternative to making a whole sub-forum non-indexable as we have done in the past.

The scripts would have to check the database for indexing status and insert a <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> tag into the HTML. At least I would think this be a lot easier than messing with robots.txt or sitemaps.

 

[glaxxon]

Ya thats what i was thinking along.
That way we can have private threads and the sales also won't get indexed by search engines.
Would be great if this can be done.

 

[tmcdomains]

word!

Ya thats what i was thinking along.
That way we can have private threads and the sales also won't get indexed by search engines.
Would be great if this can be done.

 

[Skinny]

Interesting concept.

I'd be in favor for it so long as we can ensure scammers can't abuse this feature.

Skinny

 

[xrvel]

I guess per-thread modification is not possible without vbulletin plugin.
But per-sub forum modification is possible (for example preventing all threads on "Offers Wanted", etc)