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illiterati:
I've read several of the threads about hiding pages from search engines, but nothing that addressed the specific problem I'm having. Forgive me if the answer is already here somewhere.

So here's the deal: I want to make it possible for individual members to choose if they want their posts indexed or not, ideally by allowing [noindex] as a BBcode in the body of a post.

The reason being that this is a writing workshop forum, and many magazines will not publish material that has appeared on the internet in any form--even for feedback from peers on an online forum. So I'd like members to be able to hide particular posts from search engines if they decide to send them out for publication.

This has become a more and more troubling issue, and so I'd be very grateful if anyone could offer a solution.

Thanks,
Matt

Arantor:
There is no way to specify parts of pages as not being indexed, only entire pages as a whole.

What you might want to consider doing is publishing them in boards that only registered members can see.

illiterati:
so it would also be impossible to hide a thread, including all its responses, from the robots? i thought i read something about being able to do it, with the proviso that each new page of the post would require [noindex] in the top post (there was nothing about how to do it). but i'm sure i could be mistaken.

thanks again.

Arantor:
It would be possible to hide an entire thread - but you cannot do that via bbcode in any fashion.

Reason being is that the code to indicate noindex for an entire page is code that lives up above all the content, and you can't adjust that purely inside a bbcode.

There would be ways to implement it but all of them are far more complicated and involve things like database changes.

Honestly the simplest method is just to put them in a board visible only to registered members - then there's no chance of a search engine seeing it.

Ricky.:
As Arantor said, it is not possible through bbcode, however, when one starts topic, you can have an option like "Hide this topic from Search Engines" , and when topic is displayed, we can check whether user want this, then we can include robots="noindex" in that topic. Neverthless to mention, some programmer with with some knowledge of SMF and PHP can do that.

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