I thought membership areas were not indexed in Google

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I thought membership areas were not indexed in Google if the site needed a login to protect it. There are some however that I've seen insider content indexed. How did that happen? My guess is they have a hole or left it open at some point before putting security on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Denise Million
    This from a search online...if you want your site to be password protected and inaccessible to visitors without the password, your site has to return HTTP status response 403 (Forbidden) and to be inaccessible to bots and people without a password.
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    • Profile picture of the author NicheCowboy
      use a password and noindex tag
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  • Profile picture of the author Nemanja
    you must put direcotries that you don't want to be indexed in your robots.txt flie on the root of your site.

    something like this:
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    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /admin/
    Disallow: /scripts/
    + other dirs that you don't want to be indexed
    --------------------------

    Also you can set CHMOD to 711 so that no one can acces that dir/file excewpt you when you are logged in SSH or webftp..

    Nemanja
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