{"id":447,"date":"2007-05-18T05:34:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T10:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/05\/18\/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T07:23:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:23:40","slug":"facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/05\/18\/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Spamming Your Identity To Drive Their Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was highly surprised to learn that my Facebook profile was showing up in the top 10 for Google when you Google my name. In my opinion, turning on a feature like this without informing your users of the change to drive traffic using users’ identity to their social network via search engines is rather sleazy. After looking through their 89 zillion privacy options, I could not find a way to do it without excluding current community users which I did not want to do. This was their response to my question on how to do want I wanted.<\/p>\n

Hi David,<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m afraid there is currently no way to prevent your Facebook
\naccount from appearing in a Google search. However, please
\nkeep in mind that only users that are currently able to view
\nyour profile will be able to view your listing in a Google search.
\nIf you have any further questions, please feel free to let me
\nknow.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for contacting Facebook<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s ignore the factual inaccuracies of that statement and just say that Facebook clearly doesn’t get it here. Or purposely chooses not to. I do want everyone who sees Facebook as a valuable tool and who has signed up to be able to search on me and find me. What I don’t want is for people outside this community, who often have misperceptions about these communities to see it when they do a search on me in Google or another search engine. What I don’t get is why it’s not already possible within the confines of the 89 zillion privacy options Facebook already has:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So Facebook, please give this user (and the thousands of others like me) what they want. Immediately add a noindex option for my profile so that community users can fully see and search my profile when inside the community while not allowing outside search engines to index it. I look forward to your prompt action and resolution of this request. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I was highly surprised to learn that my Facebook profile was showing up in the top 10 for Google when you Google my name. In my opinion, turning on a feature like this without informing your users of the change to drive traffic using users’ identity to their social network via search […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-experience","category-reputation-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t