Is it possiable to hide forum from the search engines?
(Google,Yahoo,Msn Etc).
Because they are some users who have very private and sensitive forums.
Thanks,
Oded Dwek
Make a robots.txt file in the webservers root directory with this in it:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /path/to/forum/
Most forum users will probably want something like what we have here:
http://community.mybboard.net/robots.txt . Ours prevents bots from accessing pages which they don't have permission to.
However if you want to block bots entirely you'll have to use MrDoom's code
Pardon for rather resurrecting this thread, but I wanted to ask if MyBB
has incorporated that feature of hiding the forum from SEs. Although
obviously a separate thing, I just thought I'd mention that WordPress'
admin panel has a feature that does exactly that.
Just that it might make it easier for non-techie MyBB users to do that
rather than have to use MrDoom's code or so. Thanks.