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Duke
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Unread post by Duke »

Considering the nature and the content of this forum, it might be a good idea to block the search engines crawlers like Ahrefs [Bot], Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], Semrush [Bot] from browsing this forum ;)

An example of robots.txt from another forum:

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User-agent: Amazonbot 
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemanticScholarBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /ajax.php
Disallow: /attachment.php
Disallow: /calendar.php
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /editpost.php
Disallow: /global.php
Disallow: /image.php
Disallow: /inlinemod.php
Disallow: /joinrequests.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /member.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /misc.php
Disallow: /moderator.php
Disallow: /newattachment.php
Disallow: /newreply.php
Disallow: /newthread.php
Disallow: /online.php
Disallow: /poll.php
Disallow: /postings.php
Disallow: /printthread.php
Disallow: /private.php
Disallow: /profile.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /report.php
Disallow: /reputation.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /sendmessage.php
Disallow: /showgroups.php
Disallow: /subscription.php
Disallow: /threadrate.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /usernote.php

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ajax.php
Disallow: /attachment.php
Disallow: /calendar.php
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /editpost.php
Disallow: /global.php
Disallow: /image.php
Disallow: /inlinemod.php
Disallow: /joinrequests.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /member.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /misc.php
Disallow: /moderator.php
Disallow: /newattachment.php
Disallow: /newreply.php
Disallow: /newthread.php
Disallow: /online.php
Disallow: /poll.php
Disallow: /postings.php
Disallow: /printthread.php
Disallow: /private.php
Disallow: /profile.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /report.php
Disallow: /reputation.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /sendmessage.php
Disallow: /showgroups.php
Disallow: /subscription.php
Disallow: /threadrate.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /usernote.php

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Unread post by K4sum1 »

And kill discoverability? no lol
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