How do you prevent a private forum’s rss feed from being spidered by search engines?

[@lynq Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

You could add your RSS feed to a robots.txt file.

Something like…

Disallow: /forum/feed

Or whatever your RSS link is.

Good luck!

[@misfit87 Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks!

[@bookespana Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Display RSS feeds.
Most webmasters show their feeds as content on their web site. When displaying a feed make sure to use PHP, ASP or HTML so search engines can spider the contents of the feed displayed. If employing a template to show feeds, use header tags to outline the looks of the Channel Title and Item Titles. several search engines weight header tags with a lot of importance.

[@fairfax Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

Hi, I’m using VBulletin 3.8.4 and vBSEO 3.6.0 RC2. I recently added a new RSS feed to my forum, and I purge the old articles after a certain number of days. How can I exclude this particular group from being seen by the search engines? I used to remember how to do this, simply forgot.