# Topic Status Between Unlisted and Listed

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-status-between-unlisted-and-listed/293813>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 1, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-status-between-unlisted-and-listed/293813 "2024-02-01T18:08:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-status-between-unlisted-and-listed/293813/3 "2024-02-05T00:22:34Z")

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I am a bit concerned about making a “unicorn” setting here cause of all of the chrome everywhere needed to surface it.

But I do like the idea a lot of using tags for this…

1. Add a site setting (or maybe longer term “tag setting”) for `excluded_from_web_indexing_tags`

2. Then if you want to keep this totally hidden, create a tag group and only make this tag visible to relevant groups.

This it will always be clear to the powers that be that you are looking at a topic that will not be indexed by Google/Bing/Etc.

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