# Delete indexes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-indexes/313023
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 21, 2024, 7:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-indexes/313023 "2024-06-21T07:32:12Z")
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### Author: ![Truest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Truest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Truest)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2024, 7:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-indexes/313023/1 "2024-06-21T07:32:12Z")

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My forum is private, and I do not want it indexed. I also want to delete previously created indexes.

Crawling was prevented with the robots.txt settings below.  
User-agent: \*  
Disallow: /

But how do I remove an existing index?

Does it stop crawling and is automatically removed over time? Or should I add `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` this html to the tag?