How to make sure google isn't indexing a forum
 

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!

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

won't that interfere or screw up vBSEO stuff?

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.

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!

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.

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!