I want to create a new category for small updates, but don’t want these topics indexed by search engines. Is it possible to do this via some setting? Or any plugins for this?

By search engines, di you mean things like Google? If so a simple solution as these small updates I suspect are just related to your community Create new category Category Security. Delete Everyone See/Create/Reply Add Trust_level_0 See Add your staff/mid or group that is allowed to create and …

Thanks Dan but this is not what I’m after - the topics should still be visible to everyone, we just want to let search engines know they need not be indexed..

Can the be available to everyone who’s logged in and not everyone? If so, make the category available to tl0. If not, maybe you can use the setting that changes your robots.txt to exclude the category. Search settings for robots and there’s a link you can click that goes to /admin/customize/robots. …

Won’t that just noindex the category page tho?

Is that worth of all the job? I mean is it really an issue? There is really big chance that any of search machines would ever show those hits. There isn’t just enough content. And who would ever even search such info-level things? That is basically quite simple thing: it public visibile isn’t an …

Is it possible to specify noindex for all topics in a specified category?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 4, 2025, 12:19am 7

You’re right. You can’t do it with the robots.txt. You’d need a plugin.

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