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belia
How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/1/9 1:49

  • belia

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I dont want my forum newbb topics listed in search engine

is this possible ?

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ghia
Re: How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/1/9 3:25

  • ghia

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Normally not.
Version of XOOPS, newbb?
Which search engine?

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belia
Re: How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/1/9 4:25

  • belia

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newbb 3.08/xoops 2.4.3

all search engine

i rephrase

i don't want modules/newbb with all the topics etc to appear in search engine

i made a search...i found something aboyt robots.txt..

will it work if i put modules/newbb there ?

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sunup
Re: How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/1/9 13:07

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Did you figure out how to block that?

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ghia
Re: How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/1/9 13:46

  • ghia

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Add this to robots.txt
le="color: #000000"><?php User-agent: * Disallow: /modules/newbb/


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belia
Re: How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/2/6 9:25

  • belia

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this is not working

search engine still index it

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ghia
Re: How to stop Search Engine to index certain module ?
  • 2010/2/6 9:35

  • ghia

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It takes some time before robot.txt changes reflect on the search results. Some engines behave also better than others.
Which engine are you talking about?

The example is for: XOOPS root = web root.

If you want to get rid of engines on the forum, place an .htaccess file in /modules/newbb/ and block their referer or IP range. Beware, some drastic measures can harm your sites' page rank.