Privacy of member's names

Hi,

I'm trying to get my site to not show any detail of members unless you've logged in. I thought I'd done this satisfactorily, but to my dismay, a quick search on Google has shown up member's walls, blogs, photos etc. despite the following being set:

Page Access Control: non-members unticked for each seperate entry for; m/photos/.*   m/wall/.*  blogs/.*   m/blogs/.*

Non-member subscription actions: all unticked

Privacy settings: All set to Members by default
 

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,

Mark 

Set up the robots.txt file in the root of the site and deny Google, Bing, etc (all the good bots will obey) from crawling your site.  If you don't know how to write the robot.txt file do some searches on the net and you will find plenty of tutorials.

After you set up the robots.txt file go to google and request that the stored searches for your site be removed from their database.  You can find out how to do this by also searching.

Thanks GG, yeah, already set robots.txt file. Can go down route of asking Google to remove content but ideally want to lock down site that stops robots indexing pages that shouldn't be accessible to non-members in the first place.

Thanks.

Further exploration reveals that Page Access Control have no affect on my site whatsoever.  I've tested all sorts of combinations of restricting URLs this morning and they are still in full view to visitors without even logging in. I've cleared the cache manually as well as using Tools also.

Part of your question has been asked quite a few times in the past few months and I've offered what I consider to be the answer each time.

The page access controls still allow for non members (guests) to access various parts of the site regardless of what you switch off. I found this annoying, and researching these forums lead me nowhere. I eventually discovered a free hack by AntonLV  called Mandatary Confirmation which is available at the Boonex Market:

https://www.boonex.com/m/Mandatory_Confirmation

This hack stops anyone getting past your splash screen. I strongly recommend you use it.

As far as bots go, I added a file in the Dolphin root called robots.txt. From what I can gather, the legit search engines look for this file and act accordingly.

Create a simple text (.txt) file called robots.txt, add this code and upload it to your site's root directory:

# go away

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

My site is listed on Google, but none of its content is shown.

Thanks John & Geek for the responses....

I've applied a more rigid robots.txt file as you recommended and have gone through the painstaking process of asking Google to remove all the hits I've identified as breaches from their index and cache. TBH, this is my fault for not applying the correct settings in Page Access Control. Whereas pretty much everything in Dolphin asks you set who CAN see content, just as Page Blocks Access does, Page Access Control asks you who should NOT see content and I'd missed that point.  My fault for not paying attention but not overly helpful of the developers to switch the principles of privacy settings for one module. Just IMHO.

Cheers.