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Title: [How To] Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive
Author: Michael Biddle
Published: 1st July 2008 02:11 AM
Full Article: http://www.vbseo.com/f34/how-completely-turn-off-vbulletin-archive-24545/


How To Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive


Step 1: Turning the archive off is relatively easy, first we start with vBulletin itself:


Visit your vBulletin Admin Control Panel, and on the left hand side, go into vBulletin Options.
In the dropdown, find Search Engine Friendly Archive.
Set the first option (Forum Archive Enabled) to "No", and hit the "Save" button.

Step 2: Now we want to change a few vBSEO Settings, in order to stop the rewrite:


Go into your vBSEO Control Panel (vbseocp.php) from your web browser and find the setting group called vB's Archive Options.
For the first drop down option, select Keep vB's Archive default settings.
Then hit the "Save Settings" button to proceed (Remember to have your config_vbseo.php CHMOD to at least 666)

Step 3: Disable search engines from indexing archive:


Inside of your robots.txt, you should add the following lines to the bottom. (If you had a custom location for your archive, then please add that just like the following)

Disallow: /sitemap/
Disallow: /archive/



Step 4: Disable archive from sitemap (If you have our vBSEO Sitemap Generator installed, proceed, if not, then you are finished)


Visit your vBulletin Admin Control Panel, and on the left hand side, go into vBulletin Options.
In the dropdown, find vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator.
Find option Include Archive Pages and set it to No.







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