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Stop search engines indexing contentless pages #8216

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WilliamWDTK opened this issue Apr 24, 2024 · 2 comments
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Stop search engines indexing contentless pages #8216

WilliamWDTK opened this issue Apr 24, 2024 · 2 comments
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data-protection-risk-reduction f:search improvement Improves existing functionality (UI tweaks, refactoring, performance, etc) x:uk

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@WilliamWDTK
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I've noticed on a couple of occasions that Google returns search results for annotation and similar request pages. In the case of the former, it adds no useful content, and I can't see that the similar requests page is useful to be indexed and returned as a search result. Additionally, it may just be another thing to be anonymised when people request erasure.

We could consider this for the below, if not already done:

  • The annotation page (/request/SLUG/annotate)
  • Any links that always require a sign-in (reply, report, status update, request ZIP download)
  • The similar requests page (/request/SLUG/similar)
@WilliamWDTK WilliamWDTK added x:uk f:search improvement Improves existing functionality (UI tweaks, refactoring, performance, etc) data-protection-risk-reduction labels Apr 24, 2024
@HelenWDTK
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Linked to #8132

@garethrees
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Closing in favour of #8132

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