How to make sure google isn't indexing a forum

[AlexisMedia]

I've got a forum that I'm almost 100% certain was setup with "Index New Posts in Search Engine" set to "no" in the forum settings at setup but is appearing in a google search title. How can I be certain that this forum will not be picked up by search engines?

Thanks!

[worried]

Create a robots.txt file and place it in your forum directory

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[AlexisMedia]

won't that interfere or screw up vBSEO stuff?

[Lynne]

Index New Posts in Search Engine has to do with whether you own members can search that forum using the search box - it has nothing to do with bots/spiders. If you don't want a forum to be indexed by the spiders, then make it so unregistered users cannot view the forum.

[AlexisMedia]

Unregistered users can't view this forum. Only user groups with special permissions. I setup the user permissions after I setup those forums though so maybe the bots slipped in before I setup my user groups?

So, no worry of robots.txt files then?

Thanks!

[Lynne]

If you used to have those forums open to unregistered users, then it's possible/probable they got indexed back then. The threads will disappear from google soon, I would think, since they can no longer see them.

[AlexisMedia]

ok cool. I'm not worried about them indexed now as they are just the forum names (no threads were added yet) but I just wanted to be sure before content was added there.

Thanks!