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AlexisMedia · #1 01-01-2011, 01:20 AM

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 · #2 01-01-2011, 02:13 AM

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

Code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

AlexisMedia · #3 01-01-2011, 02:33 AM

won't that interfere or screw up vBSEO stuff?

Lynne · #4 01-01-2011, 04:38 PM

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 · #5 01-01-2011, 05:15 PM

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 · #6 01-01-2011, 05:21 PM

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 · #7 01-01-2011, 06:16 PM

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!

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