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Block a thread from Google?

  • 10-10-2015 08:15AM
    #1
    Scotty #
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭


    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?


Comments

  • #2
    stefanovich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭stefanovich


    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.


  • #3
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,519 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


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


  • #4
    Scotty #
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    OK, no problem.


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