[Onkel_Tom]

Originally Posted by boiboi

Google for some reason has stop indexing my site after I blocked the archives from being viewed by non members. The purpose of the archive is has nothing to do with archiving but instead it's work around to make vb3 search-engine-friendly. So the solution would be to uninstall the hack from archive and remove the archive link in the footer?

You can also replace your line in index.php of /archive directory to let Google and other important search engines in your archive but not unregistered persons

$grouparray = array ( 3,4); 
if (in_array($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'],$grouparray) OR $bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp|lycos|ask jeeves|scooter|fast-webcrawler|turntinbot|msnbot|webcrawler|Infoseek|W3C_Val|googlebot)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{ 
	  echo "<center><font face=verdana, arial, helvetica size=3>You are not allowed to show our archive.<br><br>Your have to <a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/register.php?\">register</a> first at $vboptions[bbtitle] to show threads in our forums.<br><br>If you are registered at our forum it could be that you are not logged in our your account must first be checked and enabled from an Administrator.</font></center>\n<hr />\n";
	 
    print_no_permission(); 
}

just replace the usergroups in $grouparray you want to disallow to have access to your archive.

For my Board Google is idexing all threads in archive and it works great