SMF and Search Engine Problem

[deFain]

There appears to be a SMF/Search Engine problem. I wanted to alert you guys about this in case you didn't realize it already. I would say this is pretty important to be corrected. Being new to SMF and having a new install of the software, I was searching on Google for some cool themes for my new board. What I found is when you do a Google search on "smf themes", your results will be tons of links to the "Themes" folders of everybody's existing boards! Try it and you will be amazed. I'm talking page after page after page of these links. Google is the worst at this and unfortunately it is the most used search engine. There has got to be a fix for this. Maybe add a redirect index to those folders or something. It makes searching for new themes useless on Google. BTW, this does not happen with any other type of board.

[johnm]

use a robots.txt file (google for it) and you can deny access to any folder you wish

[deFain]

use a robots.txt file (google for it) and you can deny access to any folder you wish

I agree that the SMF authors and the theme authors should do that.