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Title: Indexing Members Profiles
Post by: petewadey on June 28, 2025, 11:47:53 AM

I notice Google and Bing are trying to index my members' profiles. How can I stop this from happening?

Title: Re: Indexing Members Profiles
Post by: shawnb61 on June 28, 2025, 11:59:44 AM

They honor robots.txt.

See info here:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?msg=4179600

& an example here:
https://github.com/sbulen/SMF-bot-hygiene

Title: Re: Indexing Members Profiles
Post by: petewadey on June 28, 2025, 12:24:15 PM

Thanks. I've copied and pasted the robots.txt. I'll keep an eye on things.

Title: Re: Indexing Members Profiles
Post by: shawnb61 on June 28, 2025, 02:02:05 PM

With Google it really helps to setup the Google Search Console & get familiar with it.

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