Possible bug template

Hi myself and members have had problems with templates , i have a custom black template but on google when my website is searched it comes up with mywebsite.co.uk/index.php?skin=alt‎ why they click on the link it changes the template to alt and members start deleting the accounts , i have it set to only one template , members cant choose.

if you need any more info just ask. screenshot added

There was a forum topic on this awhile back.  Let me see if I can find it.

I was thinking about this topic and I don't think that applies.

http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/7-1-x-URL-on-forum-show-boonex-on-template-change.htm

I can not reproduce this on searches for my site.  Perhaps someone else can come in on this.

Well...

1) at some point, you had this as a searchable link, or in a sitemap file (if you removed it, secured it, then use Google tools and submit the link for removal from Google - they tend to remove them in a days time)

The fact that the "complete" link has been spider-ed, tells me that your .htaccess and site permissions were not setup correctly , which would tend to lead to other problems and concerns. (* some others things could cause a link to be showing like that, but I am going to politely assume the above)

Hi what else could cause the link to show , many thanks

Is the template picker in the footer still there? That's probably where the link came from. If it was removed, the link may have been indexed from before it was binned.

Hi no its not there plus google says We couldn't demote your sitelink URL because it is not valid URL.

 well your not demoting it, send the request to remove it, if its a dead link :-)

Hi i just removed the link , but i think this is an issue that still needs addressing as it can loose people many members.

hi how can i do this, google asks to do the following , i have a splashpage

• If the page still exists, use robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling it. Even if a URL is disallowed by robots.txt we may still index the page if we find its URL on another site. However, we won't index the page if it's blocked in robots.txt and there is an active URL removal request for the page.

well yes.. you need to have a upto date robots.txt file, and make sure you are allowing/disallowing the correct spiders in.

(every sites requirements are different)

were can u find this txt file

if you dont have one, you need to create it.

http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

hi does this look correct i named the file robots.txt do i upload to the root of my website , ive attached the file

Also not a dolphin bug. The skin url parameter is a dolphin feature used for switching templates.

You can use google webmaster tools and disallow the indexing of any url's that contain that in the url.

You shoudl find it in googles webmaster tools under the crawl section under URL Perameters. You can tell googlebot what to do with urls that contain that parameter.

Hi is the file ive attached below correct , have i done everything correct for it to work.

it does state once url is removed you must  add the url to the robots.txt file within 90 days or the link could re appear

Here is mine:

As it says in other posts here.. If you disallow stuff you are opening yourself up to problems. You are telling hackers what you have..

hi what should i do then , what does that coomand in your txt file do , would it work for my site , plus how does a txt file control hackers , getting worried now lol

 Cool does your robot.txt file stop all robots

Only the bots that obey the rules.  All the major search engines should play nice; Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc.

Cool so this command lets good search engines see my site User-agent: *
Disallow:
Crawl-delay: 5

Sitemap: http://chambertheory.com/sitemap.xml

Hi is this a good setting , i found it elsewhere