John Brezovec Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 We recently removed all permissions from a parent forum (with several children forums) as a method of deprecation, without actually deleting the content. I'm noticing the content is still crawled by Google and shows up in searches (shows a 'You do not have permission to view this topic' message on the page). Is this something that will just take time for Google to know not to index, or do I have to delete the content / do something on the Invision side to prevent google from indexing it? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Randy Calvert Posted October 20, 2023 Solution Share Posted October 20, 2023 Remember Google does not crawl your full site every day. It may not even crawl you at all daily. Even once it does it may take time for results to reflect. This is something that will just take time for them to fix. You can submit requests via webmaster console to get them to remove certain pages/directories more quickly but that’s for you to do at Google not within IPB. SeNioR-, Marc Stridgen, Daniel F and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Brezovec Posted October 20, 2023 Author Share Posted October 20, 2023 Thanks Randy -- so to confirm, restricting access to a forum is all I need to do to prevent that part of the site from being crawled (and at some point in time Google should hopefully pick up on that and stop showing those links). Correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 14 minutes ago, John Brezovec said: Thanks Randy -- so to confirm, restricting access to a forum is all I need to do to prevent that part of the site from being crawled (and at some point in time Google should hopefully pick up on that and stop showing those links). Correct? Yes John Brezovec 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percival Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 It was supposed to be a bug with this 403 response codes for topics. Not sure why it wasn't fixed. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/466289-error-pages-404-vs-403-no-permission Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 On 10/20/2023 at 10:09 PM, Percival said: It was supposed to be a bug with this 403 response codes for topics. Not sure why it wasn't fixed. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/466289-error-pages-404-vs-403-no-permission That very much depends on situation of the topic and permission of the person viewing. The bug there was actually closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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