Are the message boards SEO friendly?

[code_discuss]

I often found CP's atticles in google's search result, but I seldom got one from CP's message board. So I suspect ...

[Pete OHanlon]

IIRC, There has been a deliberate policy to disallow indexing on the forums. I believe this is going to be changed in the future.

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[Chris Maunder]

They should be now. We've opened everything up and give search engines the red carpet.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Chris Maunder wrote:

give search engines the red carpet.

IMHO, at least the following should be having a rel=nofollow and noindex attributes: 1) Lounge 2) Soapbox 3) Severely voted down messages (like Abuse-reported) etc. These would present a cold-welcome to crawlers otherwise. Isn't it?

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