For SEO purposes, do I want these 'robot' commands?

[thesackshack]

First off, is it a good or bad thing for robots to: index, follow, and archive your forum?

Ive been reading commands to add to stop them from doing so, but I'm new to the SEO game and am not sure exactly what those do to a site

[Nick]

It's fine to let robots completely index your site unless you have certain content that you do not want to be indexed (for whatever reason that may be).
Let's say I had domain www.abc.com and I had a site at /site and forums at /forums.

If I didn't want robots to crawl the entire forum, I would place /forums in the robots.txt file.

Learn more about a robots.txt file:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/robots.shtml

[thesackshack]

Gotcha. Thanks Nick. I was wondering b/c when I typed my site name into Yahoo! and it was indexed. Unfort. it was indexed when the site was under construction, so it's cached that way :/

[MadK]

Gotcha. Thanks Nick. I was wondering b/c when I typed my site name into Yahoo! and it was indexed. Unfort. it was indexed when the site was under construction, so it's cached that way :/

The cached version of your website is going to update itself overtime.