Hi. I’ve seen the discussion at: [image] Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it? support You are completely hijacking a topic here that is asking for removal of items from the Google index. Feel free to open a dedicated topic to discuss this. There are changes we …

Ah, missed that one down there. Perfect. Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Also, make sure you have the login required setting turned on by rerunning the wizard at discourse.yoursite.com/wizard . That will also shut out search engines.

The site has always required login, and does not permit user self-registration. However, it has still been showing up in search engines – just with no content indexed since it couldn’t log in. My hope is that with robots.txt blocking explicitly, any mention will cease. Thanks.

Robots.txt to completely block all indexing of private site

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) March 5, 2020, 5:46pm 2

See the second to last reply in that topic: Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it?.

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Robots.txt to completely block all indexing of private site

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