1081933 - Only show questions with solutions to search engines

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Questions, task, P2)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

I as a visitor would like to only see questions with solutions when searching for things, so I don't waste time reading things that don't actually help me.

Comment 1

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

This is only for Google search results. We just need to add a meta noindex tag to all questions without a solution.

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Hmm, I didn't mean to grab this one. But I'll do it! easy enough.

Comment 3

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

in a pull request:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/pull/2163

Comment 4

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Landed on master:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/commit/2fb01395b5ea6472ff4ad4fc6e4901ec68c2dc00

Comment 5

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Deployed to prod.

Comment 6

[Matt]

Before I file a bug to reverse this, Perhaps someone could advise where the idea came from, and why it was slipped into production without consultation.

I saw lots of discussion about the forum search not being up to the task, I heard nothing of hiding unanswered questions from search engines.

Comment 7

[Alice Wyman]

Related discussion:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/710806?last=63316&page=3#post-63316
Change in support forum threads indexed by Google or other search engines: Only solved threads will be shown

Comment 8

[Matt]

(In reply to Kadir Topal [:atopal] from comment #0)
> I as a visitor would like to only see questions with solutions when
> searching for things, so I don't waste time reading things that don't
> actually help me.

None of the external blocking undertaken in this bug is related to "as a visitor"  as a visitor I would be using the internal forum search.