[Plugin: Aleph] Strange SEO effect…

Currently there is no option to disable that url, so you should disable it manually in the code.

I don’t have clear if you want to disable profiles or if you want to disable just those “ugly” urls. If you want the latter, it’s impossible.

To disable profiles go to Aleph.php in the folder base-classes and find this:

function setupQueryVars($qvars){
		$qvars[] = 'profile_of';
		$qvars[] = 'profile';
		$qvars[] = 'user_view';

		foreach ($this->taxonomies as $taxonomy) {
			$aleph_qvars = $taxonomy->getQueryVars();
			if ($aleph_qvars !== false)
				foreach ($aleph_qvars as $aqvar)
					$qvars[] = $aqvar;
		}
		return $qvars;
	}

Now, replace it with:

function setupQueryVars($qvars){
		//$qvars[] = 'profile_of';
		//$qvars[] = 'profile';
		$qvars[] = 'user_view';

		foreach ($this->taxonomies as $taxonomy) {
			$aleph_qvars = $taxonomy->getQueryVars();
			if ($aleph_qvars !== false)
				foreach ($aleph_qvars as $aqvar)
					$qvars[] = $aqvar;
		}
		return $qvars;
	}

Now in UserQuery.php, in the same folder, find:

function setup_template() {
		if (!$this->is_404 && $this->is_profile){

Replace it with:

function setup_template() {
		if (0 && !$this->is_404 && $this->is_profile){

I think that should trigger a 404 error on those urls.

Sorry, I was probably not clear enough.

I neither want to disable profiles nor ugly urls. The ugly urls are not my problem at the moment.

At the moment I have three different urls in the Aleph project:
1. users.php = https://www.c-salsa.com/searching/people/
2. profile.php = https://www.c-salsa.com/people/admin/
3. https://www.c-salsa.com/index.php?pagename=author-profile&profile_of=username

No. 3 was found and indexed by Google. If you click on the 3rd link you see that it was not supposed to be found and indexed.

Question:
What can I do? I don’t want Google to show this green page in the search results.

Hope it is clearer now.

As the user doesn’t exists, it should print the 404 Error page, but it seems it doesn’t, so it’s my fault. You have found a bug in the plugin, i’ll try to fix it.

:'(

Just let me know.
thx so much

As a quick fix you could add something to the robots.txt to tell google not to index that URL