How do I make bots go away?

[Lemur]

I notice there's a section for managing bots and spiders. However I'm not sure how to keep them out. Most of the sections on my forum will be private, and I do NOT want bots reading or indexing them. How do I make sure they can't?

Thanks!

[Paul]

You can do this when adding the permissions
The normal would be bot access but you can change this to No role assigned

[Lemur]

Thanks for your help. And forgive me, I'm horribly new at this. Where specifically do I change that?

[Paul]

No worries mate we all started like you and are not expected to know these things.
To change permissions you need to go into the Admin control panel.

ACP > Permissions (tab) > Forum based permissions (left column) > Groups’ forum permissions

Lookup usergroup > select bots from the dropdown box > submit

tick the all forums box > submit > you will now see a list of your categories and forums >
change the ones you don't want the bot to access to "No role assigned" for the ones you do want the bot to set to "Bot Access".

Paul