I entered my site’s URL on Google, and one of the hits I had, displayed the Member’s List for my Discussion Forum. How the hell do I prevent that?
Ian
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September 30, 2010 8:21pm
Subscribe [4]#1 / Sep 30, 2010 8:21pm
I entered my site’s URL on Google, and one of the hits I had, displayed the Member’s List for my Discussion Forum. How the hell do I prevent that?
Ian
#2 / Oct 01, 2010 3:52am
You mean something like here? The simplest way would be to disallow non logged-in users access to these templates; or, modify them or change the “member” profile trigger word (and don’t link to them from your page).
#3 / Oct 04, 2010 10:12pm
Nope like this: http://288547.com/Skunkworks/system/index.php?S=dc03903d6328ea86a46c9d4544c9408f&C=admin&M=members&P=view_members
I just moved my site to another server, so the browsers aren’t finding it so easily just yet.
Ian
#4 / Oct 05, 2010 8:50am
Well, for one thing, Google and other search engines can’t get into your back end to display a list of your members. Are you using something in your browser that causes Google to attempt to spider your back end?
#5 / Oct 05, 2010 4:43pm
Not that I’m aware of. My email address contains a reference to my site’s name. When I Googled my site’s name, it was picked up and placed on the list of hits.
Ian
#6 / Oct 06, 2010 3:28am
Ian,
Can you take a screenshot of that result in Google’s listing. I couldn’t find it when searching for your domain name. What was the exact phrase you used?
Are you using a robots.txt file?