John T Davis Posted August 28, 2020 Posted August 28, 2020 Hello, The forum I help administer is a private, members-only installation. Nothing should be visible to persons not logged in, and so far that's all working perfectly. I cannot find any settings to disable search engine robots from crawling our members-only content. I'm not seeing that content when I google the names of forum threads, but I'm not sure that means it's not being indexed somehow anyway. Question: how can I disable search engine indexing for everything except the login page?
CP_User Posted August 28, 2020 Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en&visit_id=637342512677318607-2263598534&rd=1 robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / I'm sure there's more to it than that, but have a read through the Google link. Edited August 28, 2020 by CP_User
Adriano Faria Posted August 28, 2020 Posted August 28, 2020 56 minutes ago, John T Davis said: Hello, The forum I help administer is a private, members-only installation. Nothing should be visible to persons not logged in, and so far that's all working perfectly. I cannot find any settings to disable search engine robots from crawling our members-only content. I'm not seeing that content when I google the names of forum threads, but I'm not sure that means it's not being indexed somehow anyway. Question: how can I disable search engine indexing for everything except the login page? If your board isn’t accessible to guests, it won’t be indexed. You don’t need to do anything.
John T Davis Posted August 28, 2020 Author Posted August 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said: If your board isn’t accessible to guests, it won’t be indexed. You don’t need to do anything. Excellent! Thanks!
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