I read the documentation on archiving, but I am not clear about where and how archived topics are listed in a forum.

Will they still be listed in the forum? Because if they will not be linked from anywhere then that is going to eventually cause some traffic drop from search engines.

Thank you.

They still shows in forum view but these topics can’t be searched so think well before you enable it.

This is an example of an archived topic: 

 

13 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

but these topics can’t be searched

Thank you. You refer to an internal search correct? And not a search engine (google, bing etc)

Internal. 

Thank you very much everyone.