# 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: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015年四月9日 03:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069/19 "2015-04-09T03:22:06Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> There is already a solution for this, they can unlist it and archive it. Done. Bam. Easy. Archive does not equal invisible.

Yes that is an even better idea. @techapj make it so unlisting a topic removes it from Google search results by adding the no index header.

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