How To Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive

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Step 1: Turning the archive off is relatively easy, first we start with vBulletin itself:

• Visit your vBulletin Admin Control Panel, and on the left hand side, go into vBulletin Options.
• In the dropdown, find Search Engine Friendly Archive.
• Set the first option (Forum Archive Enabled) to "No", and hit the "Save" button.

Step 2: Now we want to change a few vBSEO Settings, in order to stop the rewrite:

• Go into your vBSEO Control Panel (vbseocp.php) from your web browser and find the setting group called vB's Archive Options.
• For the first drop down option, select Keep vB's Archive default settings.
• Then hit the "Save Settings" button to proceed (Remember to have your config_vbseo.php CHMOD to at least 666)

Step 3: Disable search engines from indexing archive:

• Inside of your robots.txt, you should add the following lines to the bottom. (If you had a custom location for your archive, then please add that just like the following)
  • Disallow: /sitemap/
  • Disallow: /archive/

Step 4: Disable archive from sitemap (If you have our vBSEO Sitemap Generator installed, proceed, if not, then you are finished)

• Visit your vBulletin Admin Control Panel, and on the left hand side, go into vBulletin Options.
• In the dropdown, find vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator.
• Find option Include Archive Pages and set it to No.

Step 5: Remove the sitemap links in footer

• Go into your vBSEO Control Panel (vbseocp.php) from your web browser and find the setting group called vBSEO Footer Archive Links.
• In the dropdown, select the Do not add Links to Archive Pages option, then hit the save settings button