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George

15 Feb, 2010 06:08 AM

Hello,

I've been meaning to bring this up for a while ... every week or so I get a Google alert for the name of our app with links to pages within our Tender account — and it's suppose to be private. Mostly it is user pages and discussions. When choosing to make a Tender account private, it should add a disallow robot.txt for our domain yes? It doesn't seem to be working ...

Best,
George

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Courtenay on 15 Feb, 2010 07:58 AM

   

   I don't understand -- we don't "allow" google to access anything users
   can't see. So if users who aren't logged in can't see it, google
   can't.

   Also, what do you mean by making your site private?

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Courtenay on 15 Feb, 2010 08:03 AM

   

   Also, if you can provide me with some examples, that'd really help
   debugging the issue!

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3. 3 Posted by George on 15 Feb, 2010 09:56 AM

   

   I get Google Alerts for our product "subfolio". Here is the latest one I've received.

   === Google Web Alert for: subfolio ===

   User: Jamie - Subfolio Support Subfolio Support. Jamie's Avatar. Jamie. Started 0 discussion(s) and made 4 replies. Topic, State, Replies, Latest Post ... http://support.subfolio.com/users/178953

   I get ones like this on a regular basis.

   Attached is a screenshot from Tender for a feature called "private mode". Since our app is currently in private beta, we don't want non-beta users to have access to Tender. We've been in private mode from day one.

   Let me know if I am still unclear or if you need more examples.

   Best,
   George

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Courtenay on 15 Feb, 2010 10:05 AM

   

   Oh, weird! So the user profile page shows any public discussions
   titles. OK, that'll be fixed in the next deploy (hopefully today.)

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5. 5 Posted by George on 15 Feb, 2010 10:10 AM

   

   Cool Thanks!

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Courtenay on 17 Feb, 2010 06:38 AM

   

   This is now live.

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7. Courtenay closed this discussion on 17 Feb, 2010 06:38 AM.

8. George re-opened this discussion on 17 Feb, 2010 07:05 AM

9. 7 Posted by George on 17 Feb, 2010 07:05 AM

   

   great thank you!

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10. Nicole closed this discussion on 17 Feb, 2010 04:50 PM.