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Block a thread from Google?

Scotty # · 2015-10-10 07:15:13

Hi, I know how well Boards can perform in Google search results and was wondering is there any way for an OP to set a thread as non-indexable to search bots? I want to open a thread in the Personal Issues forum regarding a specific disorder and I don't want my friend who suffers from this disorder to search Google next…

10-10-2015 08:15AM

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Hi, I know how well Boards can perform in Google search results and was wondering is there any way for an OP to set a thread as non-indexable to search bots?

I want to open a thread in the Personal Issues forum regarding a specific disorder and I don't want my friend who suffers from this disorder to search Google next week and discover my thread on the first page of Google.

Is it possible?

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#2 10-10-2015 08:28AM

stefanovich

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There is robots.txt file which tells search engines which pages to not index. I would imagine allowing posters to disallow their threads would make this file huge in a short space of time. Also probably overall it's bad idea for the site as they get let hits.

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#3 10-10-2015 11:22AM

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This isn't feasible to do. And would need dev work to accomplish, and they're scarce.

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#4 13-10-2015 09:36AM

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OK, no problem.

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