Hello, Hope you’re all well. :slight_smile: This will be my first time posting here, so I’m hoping I got the Category right. We have a Discourse community topic that has recently become heated and we’d like to stop search engines from indexing a particular topic. In order for this to happen, would…

Hi Teresa, Either of those options may work to remove one topic thread from showing up on search, however if you decide to uncheck the robot index option that may remove the entire site it would not be for only one topic. Would recommend first moving the topic/thread to a member-only category, the…

Thank you so much for your reply, Dylan! Your recommendation sounds very sensible to me :slight_smile: If I’m to move this heated thread to a member-only category, any advice you’d be able to give on tutorials/ how to’s for me to make this change? This has been done on this Community by previous ma…

You literally just need to edit the Topic meta with the pencil next to the title, select the Category drop-down, select its new home and click the tick to commit it. [image]

Thanks to Robert for answer to that, then there are other options with the admin wrench to unlist, close, archive, or delete a whole topic thread. Unlist means it won’t show up on site topic list, but anyone who has been commenting will be able to continue to talk there unless you close the topic, p…

That’s really helpful thank you Dylan!! Also thank you to you Robert. Much appreciated, will give it a try now :slight_smile: Have a great weekend!

¿Cómo evitar que los motores de búsqueda indexen un tema de la Comunidad en particular?

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Teresations (Teresa) 8 Diciembre, 2023 16:04 6

¡Eso es muy útil, gracias Dylan! Y gracias a ti también, Robert.

Lo aprecio mucho, lo intentaré ahora

¡Que tengas un buen fin de semana!

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¿Cómo evitar que los motores de búsqueda indexen un tema de la Comunidad en particular?

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