“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless

Post by aabbcc1241 » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 1:56 AM UTC

duxup wrote: post #152

sandermvanvliet wrote: post #97

I've had to deal with this with e-mail verification links and Auth0. The user clicked the link after getting it in their mailbox but then Auth0 throws up an error page because the e-mail address has already been verified (by Outlook scanning). The problem becomes worse if for some reason the mail ends up in the junk mail folder so the user thinks they've never received the mail but when you check it looks like the e-…

I had a customer who had some sort of software that followed the link in the email we sent (no big deal so far), and THEN would follow every link and button on that page. We had a handy quick decline and accept button on there so they were auto declining things… I didn’t hate email until I got into web development….

Post by nopassrecover » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:32 PM UTC

pooper wrote: post #92

nopassrecover wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are publishing them - it has bitten us (e.g. expired one click links for customers ending up on Bing from their emails)

I think this is where we use meta tags. All pages with one click links should have no index follow or no index no follow. Your seo consultant (if you have one) should have advised you on this. I am not saying this excuses the privacy violation but just suggesting there are things we can do...