Admin,
You may not be aware that Google is indexing (as an example)
https://forum.reallusion.com/PrintTopic349797.aspx

I think you would prefer that Google indexed
https://forum.reallusion.com/Topic349797.aspx

Perhaps you wish to tell Google to stop that. :)
Or not.



"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

Interesting you mention this -- it has pissed me off more than once that a Google search invariably brings up the print topic.

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Annoys me too...


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It can be easily fixed.


"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

I also had this several times...


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The webmaster controls which files may be indexed by the bot and which may not. If this weren't true, all your vulnerable configuration files would be indexed on Google. It would be a security disaster. :Whistling:


"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

I see there's been no improvement in this condition. I have to say, this reflects poorly on the webmaster.


"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

I would be surprised if there is any webmaster around. Forum has number of problem pointed out hundreds of times. I am not going to repeat as it is really pointless.

A search reveals many PrintTopic entries on Google, not just from the RL forum. So it seems to be a "feature" of Google's indexing bot.

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Printing and/or caching pages is the feature of many forums. At the very top of every thread, here at this forum, if you click "options", it would drop-down 3 links and "Print this Topic" is one of them. 
That is what getting crawled and indexed by bots. Everything started with "Print" should be excluded from indexing. 
On the other hand, users information cannot be reached by any bot, since it is stored in database and only retrieved, when client starts a session by supplying ID and password.