Issue with main website crawling

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Issue with main website crawling - Celarious - 07-16-2018

I googled for Hazeron just to see what results would come up, and I found this:

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Basically, because there is no description for the website, Google and other search engines just take the recent galchat messages and use those. I think it'd be smart to add a description for services like Google to use

Additionally, as mentioned by Deantwo, the website galchat parses links posted by people, meaning if somebody were to post malicious things, Google could possibly mark the website as a "Dangerous Site". I don't think this would help with traffic for the game so should probably also be looked at

RE: Issue with main website crawling - AnrDaemon - 07-16-2018

To set the description, add

Code:
<meta name="description" content="…"/>

into the <head> part of the main page. (And preferable other pages.)
To protect against potentially unwanted links, add

Code:
<a … rel="nofollow">…

attribute to the links from galchat.

RE: Issue with main website crawling - Haxus - 07-17-2018

Thank you AnrDaemon. I did both of those things.