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Posts showing up on Google
Is there a way to make sure that my member's posts do NOT show up on google?
I have my entire board as private, but a few of the posts are showing up when searching for the persons' name (I require peopel to use first/last names as usernames). My board members are professionals that need their names to come up for their websites, not a message board. I thought that I had had it fixed, but a member just made me aware of the fact that her name comes up for her intro post (the only forum not private). Is there any way I can make that one open forum not searchable by google? I don't care if it makes my SEO go down for the board, I'm not worried about that. Thanks so much! |
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Did you try robots.txt?
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The best way to block all SE-spiders is to simply set the permissions on your forums to not allow guests to view the post text.
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Do you maybe have the archive on? Turn it off.
# I've never had any problems doing what Marco suggests. |
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The Archive also follows the usergroup permissions.
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i.e. if I have a public forum and make it private after two weeks will those previous two weeks posts disappear from the archive? I presume so but I had a bit of a panic in my early days on vb. |
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From the archive: Yes
But if a search engine has already spidered the content, then it will still live in the SE's Cache until the page is spidered again and the new (read: no permission) content is encountered. So if the page is already indexed by SE, changing the permissions will not by magic remove it from the SE. |
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We'll have to wait for vb4 for magic j/k cheers |
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Thanks very much Marco.. I switched my permissions.. so there's no way to make those old cached pages disappear? No google eraser?
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Once the same thing happened with me. You can email google support and they will remove it for you Better if you mail from your site domain Thanks |
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