Private Forum
 

I am new to setting up forums.

My needs are for a private forum for employees at my company.

The content cannot be accessed by search engines. I know I can block access to folks trying to get on the forum (if they were to happen upon it) just by requiring people to register as well as not allowing 'guests' to view the forum.

What I don't know is if the web crawlers and robots that mine data for search engines can still see this data even if it is blocked by passwords and entry requirements.

Thanks for your help.