[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52457: WordPress vulnerable to search-reflected webspam

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#52457: WordPress vulnerable to search-reflected webspam
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 Reporter:  abagtcs      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  5.7
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by xkon):

 This is a problem indeed. According to an older Google q/a stream, if I
 recall correctly, it was mentioned that crawling search results add little
 to no value in regards to ranking and also obviously slow down crawling
 itself.

 So there's nothing wrong at calling a noindex, nofollow in `?s=`, it's
 basically better doing it even to avoid the spam in parallel. Feel free to
 correct me if I'm wrong though as I'm not an expert on the matter :).

 That being said, I agree that maybe we should "protect" the search results
 by default with an extra option along the `Search engine visibility`
 setting.

 Note that currently this is something that various SEO plugins do as well
 :).

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