blocking dynamic parts of forum

[viggen]

...is there a way to block in the robots.txt the dynamic url of

../forum/index.php?app=blog&module=actions&section=forward&do=sendentry&eid=195&blogid=22

but allow

../forum/index.php?app=blog&module=display&section=blog&blogid=31&showentry=2531

any help would be appreciated...

cheers
viggen

[incrediBILL]

It's better IMO to use the meta ROBOTS NOINDEX for those pages because only Google non-standard robots.txt enhancements is flexible enough to what you want leaving the other SEs still to be dealt with.

[viggen]

thanks incrediBill,

i dont think i can use robots NOINDEX for those pages as they are automatically generate by my forum software, but i going to look into their FAQ to see if that is possible...

[incrediBILL]

You would have to conditionally include it per page, a programming change, very unlikely it's already supported but something they should support based on Google's stance on thin/duplicate content so maybe they'll implement it for you, can't hurt to ask.

[viggen]

thanks again,

i will get into contact with the forum than,
last question regarding this, could i at least block for now

(for some reason i cant post that url it breaks into gibberish, here a screenshot of the url)

[img842.imageshack.us...]

I wonder if i can block at least the ?app=core part

[viggen]

@incredibill

just to let you know, i tried the lesser problem for now and settled blocking the following;

Disallow: /forum/index.php?app=core
Disallow: /forum/index.php?app=members
Disallow: /forum/index.php?autocom
Disallow: /forum/index.php?s=

within 4 days about 5.000 pages were blocked and as a nice side effect the visitor level is almost back to pre panda level...

[OrganicPop]

hi viggen,

i have a somewhat similar issue. I want to blog user profiles for a forum where the extension looks like such:

/forum/profile.php?id=227

how can i block all of those profiles using robots.txt?

thanks in advance.

[viggen]

...i would assume

Disallow: /forum/profile.php?

should do the trick, if you have Google WMT you can test if it does block it correctly...