Re: Hide Forum from SERPs

Posted by GregChapman on Apr 02, 2015; 9:05am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Hide-Forum-from-SERPs-tp7594423p7594432.html

WeGotThat wrote

We have a forum set up on one of our sites for members to use to discuss their business practices, meetups, etc. The forum is already members only, but we've noticed some posts will show up in search engine results pages. What's the best way to prevent these pages from coming up in the SERPs?

Change the permissions (Options > Users > Change Permissions) so that those in the "Anyone" group do NOT have the "View" permission and add the "View" permission to those in the "Registered" group.

If you have implemented a manual membership system, then give the "View" permission to "Members" rather than "Registered".

All users (including search engines) are then presented with a Login Screen which a search engine cannot get through as they will not have registered or not be in the "Members" group.