Don’t use “none” in robots meta

  • Resolved joostdevalk

    (@joostdevalk)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    in /data/index.php and elsewhere in the plugin, you’re using:

    <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NONE" />

    Please change NONE to noindex, as right now, Google is indexing for instance the /wp-spamshield/data/ directory on sites, as can be seen here.

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by joostdevalk.
    • This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by joostdevalk.
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  • Plugin Contributor rsm-support

    (@rsm-support)

    Hi @joostdevalk,

    Please direct all support requests to the plugin’s official support venue,
    WP-SpamShield Technical Support    .

    Before submitting a support request, please make use of the following support resources, as they provide solutions for most user issues:

    1. Troubleshooting Guide
    2. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    3. Known Issues and Plugin Conflicts
    Thread Starter joostdevalk

    (@joostdevalk)

    You can redirect me all you want but this is issue is not resolved.

    Thank you for posting here Joost. (I appreciate the heads up to a potential security issue)

    Plugin Contributor rsm-support

    (@rsm-support)

    @joostdevalk,

    You can redirect me all you want but this is issue is not resolved.

    We would ask that you be civil. You understand how this works as you don’t provide support at the forums either.

    Please change NONE to noindex

    Everything in the plugin is according to Robots Exclusion Standard specs.

    I realize you do SEO for a living, but please review Google’s Specs for the Robots Exclusion Standard:

    Excerpt:

    none Equivalent to noindex, nofollow

    You are free to override anything in the plugin by adding X-Robots-Tags via server config.

    Regarding the link you provided, we see 22 results. 22, out of almost 200,000 sites using it. That seems to be working quite well.

    If you actually go and click on those links, none of them have the /data/index.php file any more, so the /data/index.php file can’t actually be the source of that issue.

    Are those your sites? Please do not submit support issues that you are not personally experiencing. If one of your sites, or one of your client sites was one of those listed, then you are welcome to submit a support request.

    As noted above, all support requests need to be submitted to the plugin’s support page, as we do not provide support here at the forums.

    @abigailm,

    Hi Abigail! I hope you are doing well. ?? No security issues here.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by rsm-support.
    Thread Starter joostdevalk

    (@joostdevalk)

    I didn’t say it was a security issue, if I’d considered it one I wouldn’t have posted it on the forums ??

    You’re right on the “none” part, apparently (you learn something every day), but I do see these indexed, and it shouldn’t be if it was working, so something is amiss here…

    If I click on them I get redirected because of the refresh header that’s also in that file, that doesn’t mean the file is no longer there.

    Are those your sites? Please do not submit support issues that you are not personally experiencing.

    I was submitting this support issue to help you improve your plugin. Nothing else. As far as I can tell I’m free to do that on these forums ??

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by joostdevalk.
    Plugin Contributor rsm-support

    (@rsm-support)

    I was submitting this support issue to help you improve your plugin. Nothing else.

    Thank you. We always appreciate friendly advice. ?? Have a good one.

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