How do you noindex specific forums or topics?

[Jonathan R]

Hi all

Still setting up here so apologies in advance for some dumb questions. I've set up some RSS feeds that create news-like topics for discussion but I want to noindex those particular topics/posts to avoid a Google penalty for duplicate content.

I've looked at the meta tag manager but haven't quite figured it out. Do I manually block a category of urls (with a wildcard) in the Robots.txt file or can IPS generate the tags on each forum/topic as it is created?

 

Thanks 

[opentype]

Simplest way is to just make the forum members-only. If you don’t want the content indexed, then there is also little use showing it to guests.