2008/7/25 Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com:
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I'd say a reasonable middle-ground would be to upgrade the software to support __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ then give users a week or two to tag the stuff they want indexed with __INDEX__ before flipping the noindex switch on. This would allow us to keep indexing the useful stuff without having to hunt down every userfied BLP and tag it. Also, new userspace pages would be no-indexed by default, which seems like a good thing to me.
Concur that this sounds entirely reasonable, although it might be worthwhile for some BLP-sensitive folk to trawl through the ones that people tag as __INDEX__ at a future date.
Risker