SEO features I actually agree with

Two pull requests landed on the FriendsOfFlarum SEO extension within the last hour, and these are exactly the kind of features I can get behind.

The first one adds a toggle to de-index user profile pages. Profile pages are classic low-value pages for search — thin content, mostly duplicate links — and having them in the index does nothing for a forum but dilute it. The PR does it the right way too: noindex, follow, so crawlers still traverse the links without keeping the page itself in results.

The second one goes further: exclude entire tags from indexing. Pick the tags, and every discussion in them — plus the tag's own listing page — gets de-indexed. Selecting a parent tag covers its children too. That's exactly what you want for off-topic lounges, support dumps, or internal staff areas that have no business showing up in Google.

A lot of SEO tooling is busywork that chases scores instead of outcomes. These two are the opposite: simple controls over what search engines see, solving real problems forum admins actually have. More of this, please.