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**Domagon** · 12-28-2004, 01:16 AM

I'll throw my 2 cents in ... continue to allow Google to index all boards.

For sellers who want to keep sale prices secret, don't post the prices to begin with on message boards, chats, etc...

Even if Google didn't index the boards, there's a good chance others will continue to; not every bot obeys robots.txt - on a publicaly available web site one can never be sure what's being archived by various parties ... there are all sorts of bots, some of which have nothing to do with search engines, such as marketing research bots, copyright compliance bots, etc. Who knows, maybe there's a domain sale price bot out there indexing ask/sale prices posted on various boards.

Lastly, real estate prices are often public record and yet lots of folks still make a bundle speculating in it ...

Ron

12-28-2004, 01:16 AM	#11 (permalink)
Domagon DNF Addict Name: Ron Bennett Last Online: 11-19-2008 05:56 PM iTrader: (18) Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,307 DNF$: 7,690 Location: Wyomissing, PA Country:	Re: For Sale Threads Shouldn't be Indexed in Google I'll throw my 2 cents in ... continue to allow Google to index all boards. For sellers who want to keep sale prices secret, don't post the prices to begin with on message boards, chats, etc... Even if Google didn't index the boards, there's a good chance others will continue to; not every bot obeys robots.txt - on a publicaly available web site one can never be sure what's being archived by various parties ... there are all sorts of bots, some of which have nothing to do with search engines, such as marketing research bots, copyright compliance bots, etc. Who knows, maybe there's a domain sale price bot out there indexing ask/sale prices posted on various boards. Lastly, real estate prices are often public record and yet lots of folks still make a bundle speculating in it ... Ron __________________ Domagon Consulting Services - Business Help and Problem Solving AllSkin.com / AllSkins.com - premium pair of domains - Make An Offer!