Hi, As a blog host I often have hundreds if not thousands of spam account been created on a daily basis. I have multiple bots running to automatically delete the obvious ones, but some are flaged for manual review. Until I get around to review those blogs, I would like to add a meta tag, content="noindex", to ensure that Google does not penalise me having spam on my site, (because Google visits my site rather often). Do you think those meta tags will help? Or will Google still see me as a potential spammer/duplicate content site? Or will having that tag not make any real difference? What would be a better way to handle those sites? Thanks FFMG
If you were going to do this, you may as well add noindex and nofollow until the review is done... I'm not sure if its possible but if it can be done, blocking access to the flagged content would probably be the best way... Maybe try and temporarily redirect (via 302) the flagged blogs to a sub folder or sub domain that's blocked in the robots.txt. (EG: 302 to example.com/pending/ or pending.example.com). Cheers James