Arcade help needed

[bitsandpcs]

the forum i help admin has an arcade on it, we have hidden the arcade at present, but it will go active again soon, but the problem is we cant stop the search engines from alway going into it.

I have changed the rights of the forum to admin only, turned it of in acp and gone into acp and gone into permissions of groups and set the option of bots no access to the forum section which contains the arcade.

But when ever i see google bot on the forum it is still always in the arcade.

What am i doing wrong, how can i stop this i justwant google to index the the whole forum not just the arcade all the time.

[cisco007]

do you have any ads set up in the arcade?

[bitsandpcs]

Not to my knowlege

[cisco007]

well maybe you can look around for a robots.txt that can be added to the forum that way you can add which bots can go where, i am sure it navigates there but don't think it can index it if it doesn't have permission to be there, or you can try wrapping the arcade link with

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<!-- IF not S_IS_BOT -->arcade link <!-- ENDIF -->

then it shouldn't not bots should find the link!