Michael Krigsman Guest | Not wanting Google indexing (12th Jun 09 at 8:25pm UTC) Is there a way to disable all search engine indexing. I want to create a completely private forum. Thanks! | | Forum URL: Experienced By: Browser: Operating System: Problem: | |
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pmwww | Re: Not wanting Google indexing (12th Jun 09 at 8:40pm UTC) | | Well what you would do is make your forum not viewable by guests. You would do this by going to Manage Forum Permissions and unchecking guests. Save it, and then log off and then you will not see your boards or categories. Google will still come and look at your forum, but they will only see what guests see, and that's just the main area with no boards or categories.
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: Not wanting Google indexing (12th Jun 09 at 8:49pm UTC) | | Hi. You can stop the major search engines from indexing or crawling your site by going into your admin panel, going to "SEO Settings" and then entering this piece of code in the "Misc. Meta Tags" field. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> | |
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Michael Krigsman Guest | Re: Not wanting Google indexing (12th Jun 09 at 9:48pm UTC) | | Thank you! | |
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pmwww | Re: Not wanting Google indexing (12th Jun 09 at 9:58pm UTC) | | Hi. You can stop the major search engines from indexing or crawling your site by going into your admin panel, going to "SEO Settings" and then entering this piece of code in the "Misc. Meta Tags" field. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
That's cool. I never knew that! | |
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