648774 - SEO spam in user profiles

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Users and Groups, task)

Description

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

People are using sumo for seo.

some examples
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377327
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377331
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377370

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377385
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377394
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377419
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/user/377475

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

We are adding `rel="nofollow"` to the website link but not to links in the bio... need to fix that.

Comment 3

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

I added rel="nofollow" to all links in the bio. This doesn't prevent spam but removes any google juice benefits these links. We should probably add a report abuse link to the profile page? I'll file a bug.

https://github.com/jsocol/kitsune/commit/26b71486207ec213373da6fe3e390d275c131870

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Seemed to me that looking at the profiles there were either no links or 4-5. Though there is a another class of seo spam that I saw to site build for a person using facebook links. I ignored those.

Comment 5

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified rel=nofollow for all profile links - in website area and also in bio