# Best practices for archiving topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015年四月1日 18:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069 "2015-04-01T18:17:22Z")
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### Author: ![calmh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/calmh/32/115466_2.png) [@calmh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [2015年四月8日 07:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069/12 "2015-04-08T07:31:08Z")

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Is there a difference in search engine visibility for Archived topics? I for one would like to see archived topics be not-indexed by Google and co., and be invisible or deprioritized in the in-Discourse search. This for many of the reasons stated [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-old-topics-be-deleted-from-this-forum/19070), but still leaving the topic around for people who have the link or otherwise know where it is…

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