How do I stop robots accessing private forums

[Banana]

The robot gets an "access denied" when trying to access threads within a private forum, but still gets into the forum. How do I stop this.

The private forum is "deny all"ed and then individual users are given access via their access masks

[Zachery]

Do you run google ad's?

[Banana]

Do you run google ad's?

Yes

:ThinkIKnowWhatIsComingSmilie:

[Zachery]

Because the google ad's are displayed in that forum google sends a link to see whats on the page to display the correct ad's

[Banana]

That's what I thought after your question above. How does one NOT have the google ads displayed in private forums then?

[Zachery]

As google cant see anything and they just get an error page is there any reason to want to block them?

you can use a condition to remove it

<if condition="$foruminfo[forumid] != X"> adsense code here </if>

[Banana]

The reason to block them is so that they don't show on Who's Online thus giving away the fact ihe forum exists.....

[Zachery]

Only people you have given access to see the location and or detained location, ontop of that who can see the forum would know where they are.

[Banana]

Good point. Thanks.