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Hello,
I would like to make my forum private and accessible to members only. I understand how to do this with access levels.
My concern is my forum being indexed by search engines. I want no search engines indexing any content in my forum.
Is there a way to add the <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> tag in wpForo to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Andrew
Hi @afjs,
wpForo has an option to disable user profile indexing in Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Features admin page. The option called "Enable User Profile Page indexing".
wpForo allows you to set noindex any forum topic and directory in Dashboard > Forums > Tools > Misc Tab. The option name is "Noindex forum page URLs".
I'd also suggest you read this support topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/is-it-possible-to-exclude-a-sub-forum-from-being-indexed-by-google/#post-46957
Thanks for your reply.
1. So there's no way to noindex the entire wpForo but rather you must noindex forum by forum, is that correct?
2. So if I have a forum with the slug of how-to-register and the location of wpForo is community is the following added into "Noindex forum page URLs" correct?
https://www.xyz.com/community/how-to-register/*
Andrew
1. So there's no way to noindex the entire wpForo but rather you must noindex forum by forum, is that correct?
You can also exclude the whole forum using the path below:
https://www.xyz.com/ community/*
The community is the example, in your case, it can differ.
