Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
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Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Hello - I'm new here so I do apologise if this is covered elsewhere ... I have searched to no avail.
My problem is that I wish to completely hide my whole forum from the internet search engines - such as Google - I'm still working setting it up & it's not ready to be viewed yet.... but it's showing up in google searches already
I'm not very tech. minded ....
so if somebody could explain the process to me I'd be so grateful - many thanks in advance
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
You can't remove them.
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Thanks for your reply but I'm not sure what you mean MrMario
- I think that there is a way to stop the forum showing in Google searches as I know of another forum that has achieved this - & it's content is very similar to mine.
My forum is it's "sister" in a way - we're using it to "back-up & reorganise" whist the other keeps going - the thing is I've spoken with this other forum's owner & she can't remember how she actually managed this ...
- I think that there is a way to stop the forum showing in Google searches as I know of another forum that has achieved this - & it's content is very similar to mine.
My forum is it's "sister" in a way - we're using it to "back-up & reorganise" whist the other keeps going - the thing is I've spoken with this other forum's owner & she can't remember how she actually managed this ...
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There is no way to stop them here.
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Then could someone please explain to me why my colleague's forum does not show up in a google search & mine does - yet both forums have the same content.
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
The google spiders possibly, have not indexed your friends site yet then.
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Hi,
Yes indeed it is possible to stop bots (And spiders) from crawling your forum
Admin panel >> General > Search Engine > Meta tags, in the boxes, insert the below
name = robots
content = noindex
and save.
Yes indeed it is possible to stop bots (And spiders) from crawling your forum
Admin panel >> General > Search Engine > Meta tags, in the boxes, insert the below
name = robots
content = noindex
and save.
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Sanket wrote:The google spiders possibly, have not indexed your friends site yet then.
Her forum has been around for much longer than mine ( one year longer) so I don't think that this is the case but thanks for your reply
Darren1 wrote:Hi,
Yes indeed it is possible to stop bots (And spiders) from crawling your forum
Admin panel >> General > Search Engine > Meta tags, in the boxes, insert the below
name = robots
content = noindex
and save.
Thankyou for you advise Darren -
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Does this look correct to you because I've done this & it's still continuing to come up in Google searches - but the other forum - with the same content is not.
Many thanks in advance
Last edited by Organic on August 19th 2011, 9:54 am; edited 1 time in total
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
It will take time for search engines to remove you from their databases. Check out this for more information.Organic wrote:Darren1 wrote:Hi,
Yes indeed it is possible to stop bots (And spiders) from crawling your forum
Admin panel >> General > Search Engine > Meta tags, in the boxes, insert the below
name = robots
content = noindex
and save.
Thankyou for you advise Darren -
Does this look correct to you because I've done this & it's still continuing to come up in Google searches - but the other forum - with the same content is not.
Many thanks in advance
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Also remember bots can only gather information they have access to.
So if you have all your forums set for members only, then the bots can not gather any info on the forum. they will only crawl on the outside.
you can also do simple things, like not have forum name or description displayed as well as not being in any forum directories.. so you do have some options, but the best would be just to have all your forum permissions for embers only,
So if you have all your forums set for members only, then the bots can not gather any info on the forum. they will only crawl on the outside.
you can also do simple things, like not have forum name or description displayed as well as not being in any forum directories.. so you do have some options, but the best would be just to have all your forum permissions for embers only,
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Not quite, you see the option "meta tags", hit the next to it, to create a new tag, and set it as the option of "Create new 'Meta Tag'" then add the name & Content to as I have above
So, once you add that, effectively, your forum will not be indexed by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and many other bots, however, a cached (Out of date) version will remain online for a little bit, but cannot be updated, and will be removed after some time.
So, once you add that, effectively, your forum will not be indexed by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and many other bots, however, a cached (Out of date) version will remain online for a little bit, but cannot be updated, and will be removed after some time.
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Darren1 wrote:Not quite, you see the option "meta tags", hit the next to it, to create a new tag, and set it as the option of "Create new 'Meta Tag'" then add the name & Content to as I have above
So, once you add that, effectively, your forum will not be indexed by Google, Yahoo, MSN, and many other bots, however, a cached (Out of date) version will remain online for a little bit, but cannot be updated, and will be removed after some time.
yeah i remember you telling me about that before.
You know whats funny.. you have so many people that want it in the search engines and cant seem to get it in there enough, then you have those that would rather not be in search engine but are more then they would like it to be.
But either way you look at it,Guess setting up those meta tags can help for whichever way you want it
Right... lol only if you say so D-man
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Her forum has been around for much longer than mine ( one year longer) so I don't think that this is the case but thanks for your reply
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
This'll be more correct:Yes indeed it is possible to stop bots (And spiders) from crawling your forum Very Happy
Admin panel >> General > Search Engine > Meta tags, in the boxes, insert the below
name = robots
content = noindex
and save.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
Also I recommend you to clear any tags in search engine settings and input "and" in your description and keywords (you can hide description in any time )
But your page will be in google. However, my private forum isn't shown in search
Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Many thanks for all your input on this subject - I will try all the things that you suggest to attempt to hide my forum.
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Re: Hiding forum from Goggle & other search engines.
Idinafig, that is so true, I don't know how I missed it :s
Rookie mistake of me
Organic, is it working out all A-OK?
Rookie mistake of me
Organic, is it working out all A-OK?
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Thanks alot for all the help Guys - could you tell me if this all looks OK now?
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