Blocking a forum with robots.txt

Discussion in 'robots.txt' started by lateuk, May 1, 2008.

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    Hello,
    I am moving from one forum software to another, i currently have about 2400 forum posts listed on Google that will all 404 once i change to the new forum. Should i block the forum with robots.txt now so they get removed from Google or should i just accept i will have a lot of broken links on Google for a while?

    Also will this affect the rankings of the rest of my site in Google?

    Thanks
     
    lateuk, May 1, 2008 IP
  2. manish.chauhan

    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    You should block them from robots.txt and then remover those urls from google index using google webmaster tools..:)
     
    manish.chauhan, May 1, 2008 IP