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  • edytwinky
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2007
    • 349
    • 3.8.x

    Are vBulletin Posts Searchable By Google

    I was wondering whether if posts people made on vBulletin Forums were searchable by search engines like Google and Yahoo.

    Is there a way to prevent that?
  • Zachery
    Former vBulletin Support
    • Jul 2002
    • 59097

    #2
    Yes they are, unless you don't allow guests, or tell them to not come to your site via robots.txt

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    • edytwinky
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2007
      • 349
      • 3.8.x

      #3
      How do you go about doing this? Should I post this in another forum?

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      • Zachery
        Former vBulletin Support
        • Jul 2002
        • 59097

        #4
        Google robots.txt if you want to disalow spiders but keep your forum open to guests.

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        • edytwinky
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2007
          • 349
          • 3.8.x

          #5
          I don't want to allow guests whatsoever. So if I just set my permissions to not viewable on all forums would that work?

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          • Zachery
            Former vBulletin Support
            • Jul 2002
            • 59097

            #6
            So just edit the unregistered / notlogged in group and set the majority of their permissions to no.

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