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    google - blocking one thread

    Anyone know how to block a specific thread from Google (vb2.x)? I have a member who is upset about something showing up in search. As a general rule I dont do this for members but he's adimant about it and I dont him to edit the post because its long... and, well, relevant to the conversation.

    Thanks in advance!
    Peter

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    You could try put the thread in robots.txt under disallow, but I'm not sure if robots.txt supports query strings.

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    Maybe move it to a private forum that guests dont have access to, but registered users do?

    We have a "Suggestion Box" for our site, which contains things like problems with the site, smiley requests, new forum requests, etc, stuff we dont want indexed.. so that's what we did with it.

    I think you could probably just create a disallow: /blah/blah.html and it'd work .. but that's not going to remove it from the index of the search engine after it's already been indexed..
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    I guess it may be possible to add an IF statement in the showtread template to add META Noindex etc for that thread.

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