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Prior to upgrading to Easyblog 5, I had an issue where someone had set themselves up as a blogger and created a load of spammy content on my blog. To fix this I deleted all the content and locked down Joomla, which resulted in pages returning 404 error when someone searched for the bad content.
Having upgraded to Easyblog 5 this behavior seems to have changed and now when someone tries to access one of the 25 or so bad URLs, or enters anything after the /blog/ that does not exist, Easyblog 5 loads the blog Frontpage with a search capability.
I am trying to get Google to drop all of this bad content from SERPS so really want to force a 404 or 410 Error (i.e. the page is gone for good) for this content. Is there a way to do this? Or is Easyblog 5 reporting a 404/410 behind the scenes anyway and then diverting to a search?
Having upgraded to Easyblog 5 this behavior seems to have changed and now when someone tries to access one of the 25 or so bad URLs, or enters anything after the /blog/ that does not exist, Easyblog 5 loads the blog Frontpage with a search capability.
I am trying to get Google to drop all of this bad content from SERPS so really want to force a 404 or 410 Error (i.e. the page is gone for good) for this content. Is there a way to do this? Or is Easyblog 5 reporting a 404/410 behind the scenes anyway and then diverting to a search?
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