disabling "homepage" from profile.

[IsMaR]

Some of you might not know, but, it's a well known spamming technique where, a spammer would create profiles on your website, then get them indexed, and use home page field to gain back links from your website.

So, why isn't there option to disable this? I've disabled signature, everything else, but not home page field.

[pcunite]

Hmm, I'll have to look into that for my new site.

[BirdOPrey5]

If you simply added "rel='nofollow'" to the link tags (<a href="..." rel="nofollow">) that *should* prevent the site from gaining any search engine rankings while still allowing your legit users to post links to their homepages.

Also you could block user profiles from being indexed at all using your robots.txt file.

[pcunite]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Also you could block user profiles from being indexed at all using your robots.txt file.

What is the syntax for that... is it this Disallow: /forums/profile.php

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by pcunite

What is the syntax for that... is it this Disallow: /forums/profile.php

Close...

Disallow: /forums/member.php

[ETDC]

There really should be an option in Admin CP to disable profile links on a per user basis...

[BigJohnny]

if your using robots.txt I have a mod that will disallow that file to humans and allows access to bots if your interested.

The reason being, you can disallow that stuff through robots.txt, but if someone were more interested in doing you harm, they could load the robots.txt file in their browser and see where you don't want them to be, and that might really pique their interest more.

[ETDC]

Thanks. All sorted now with a custom Mod.

[bigfish]

But why isn't there an option to remove the homepage link completely from the profile? Why not give us the option?

[Frosty]

Styles & Templates - Your Style - Edit Templates - Member Info Templates - memberinfo_block_contactinfo

Find:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$prepared['homepage']">
<dt class="shade">$vbphrase[home_page]</dt>
<dd><a href="$prepared[homepage]" target="_blank">$prepared[homepage]</a></dd>
</if> 


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