[geeklog-devel] Profile of the "anonymous" user

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Fri Jul 29 10:02:41 EDT 2011


It does not make sense to have a profile page for the Anonymous user (since in reality it is many users).

I think it should just redirect to the homepage if someone attempts to view the Anonymous profile (just like it does for
a profile that does not exist).

Tom


> I've noticed that Googlebot is indexing the profile of the Anonymous
> user (uid 1) on one of my sites. That brings up a couple of questions:
>
> - do we want that?
> -- if not, what do we do? add a NOINDEX meta tag?
> - does it even make sense to have a profile page for that user?
> -- if not, what do we display instead?
>
> And of course: Where did it get that link from in the first place?
> I.e. are we accidentally linking to that profile somewhere?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> bye, Dirk
>
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