Duplicate content because of member only restrictions on a forum.

[Bjork]

Our website's Community Forum links to the membership profile pages, which by default are blocked for non-members.

• https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/
• https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/member/1301/

We're getting warnings in Moz for duplicate content (and errors) on these member profile pages.

Any ideas for how we can creatively solve this problem? Should we redirect those pages or just beef them up with more content? Just ignore it and assume that search spiders will be smart enough to figure it out?

See attached video for further explanation.

Community_Area.mp4

[Ray-pp]

Googlebot won't be able to see the full community member profiles, since it is hidden behind a user login wall. However, the duplicate content error is an issue you want to correct.

• https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/member/1041/
• https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/member/2373/
• https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/member/1301/

All of the community member pages produce an error, if viewing logged out. Unfortunately, the URL remains the same and only shows an error, it does not redirect the user to an error page. This results in all of the community member profiles having unique URLs, all with duplicate content.

You should add a noindex tag to community member pages and, if possible, redirect the user to an error page rather than the unique community profile page for those viewing while logged out.

[Bjork]

Awesome. Makes total sense.

I've dropped this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /community/member/

Into our robots.txt file.

Thanks Ray!