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I have a site with loads of content relating to discussions etc. This is all good and indexed nicely by google. I also have 14k member profile pages with pretty much no content. I added these to my sitemap because I thought that the more pages we have, the bigger and better the engines will think we are. Is this the case or should I hide my profile pages using robots.txt as they contain very little content.

My other option would be to add links to the member pages with what they have written in various discussions but would this just be classed as duplicate content?
#advice #robotstxt
  • Profile picture of the author cassidywilliams
    Google can take a sitemap with up to 50 000 URLs, so if your total amount of URLs is under that, its all good.

    If your profile pages also link to your home page, more brownie points.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Is this thread a joke? That's taking the sitemap concept from
      benign to the ridiculous level.

      Putting 14,000 profile pages in a sitemap is just insane.

      Sometimes I think some of you sit on the john each morning
      and come up with some crazy $#!t.

      There is no brownie points for a sitemap. Where did you get
      that idea?

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  • Profile picture of the author jsmichael6
    "I added these to my sitemap because I thought that the more pages we have, the bigger and better the engines will think we are."

    Where you read if you have more pages search engine will give you any advantage,this is not true.I dont think if 14k profile page will index then you will get any advantage.
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  • Profile picture of the author StoneWilson
    Quality is important, how these 14k "profile pages with pretty much no content" would help people? Think again.
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