[imjscn]

Member’s activities are automatically updated across the network, it can show up in the forum, personal activity, group activity…
I’m just wondering– how Google read this?

If Google consider this as duplicated content, then, our page rank will be infected.

I heard that r-a-y developed a plugin for showing excerpts instead of full activity content. Is it for the purpose of not being penalized?

[modemlooper]

You probably do not want activity and profiles to be scraped by google. For one, its a users privacy invasion.

[imjscn]

@modemlooper , thanks for the suggestion. I didn’t realized this issue. But, do we have control over this issue? How to not allow google scraping through?

Even if we can stop google scraping through some items, forum posts are still good to be exposed to google. Forum post are on at least 3 pages– Topic page, Group activity, Site activity. Personal activity(ignore this if block google on personal page)

So, at least the Group Activity and Site Activity are duplicated contents?

[modemlooper]

You create a file called robots.txt and you specify which URL so for instance it could be anything after /activity

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /activity/*

This blocks google from scraping your images. This is a MUST for social networks that are using Albums.
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

[imjscn]

@modemlooper , thanks for the tip!