Hello all, Bit of a strange one this, but some of you may be aware that I had a spot of bother regarding one of my forums. The company I work for now want me to work with them, so they can have a forum only accessible to employees of the company, and it doesn't show up in the search engine listings when people do a search for the company name. I was running AdSense on the old forum, and I was just wondering if I could still run the Ads even though the site will be "locked down" and not indexed in search engines? PS, could someone tell me how to have parts of a forum omitted from the search engines? Thanks in advance.
Adsense will still work, yes. As for how to have parts of the forum omitted, there might be a script you can find somewhere for that depending on what system your forum is running on. Otherwise, just set up a php script that parses the url of the page for whatever you want. If it finds it, it spits out a noindex/nofollow tag in the header.