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Marcin

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gshv

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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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As a suggestion - we can make "Group Buys" forum open only for registered users. This will hide it from Google.
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FDIV

Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 740 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| That definately sounds like a good idea. |
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gshv

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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| chiptalk wrote: | | Or use a googlebot instruction not to scan portions of the forum. |
I'm not sure if it'll be possible to do. I don't think putting URL like "http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9" into robots.txt will work.
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Cpuswe

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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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If you can add meta tags for all post which belong to "Group buys" then <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> would do it _________________ My collection: http://www.cpucollection.se :::::: http://www.chipdb.org Photos of chips you never knew existed. Now over 6000 different chips in the database. |
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gshv

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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| chiptalk wrote: | You're right for older bots, but Googlebot is a superbot.  |
If we're going to hide group buy posts, then it's better to hide them from all search engines, not just Google. Adding meta tag is a good solution, but it requires me to change the code, which I'd like to avoid. I think that making the forum for registered users only is much easier to implement, and it will hide it not only from search engines, but from guests too.
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gshv

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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:51 am Post subject: |
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I updated permissions of "Group Buys" forum. Now you need to log in to read or post in that forum.
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