Create new menu items for the points history page and set it to registered users or keep the points Menu items public and just give the alias a name like this : hjsdjkkhjkhgHGHKGHKGKHJBGKHBGHKJBBNBNhljkbhbhbkhkblhjkbasldfoiimoismUNuniSWExecctcVTYtrvrddcrcrt

Google will not index a page like this yoursite.com/hjsdjkkhjkhgHGHKGHKGKHJBGKHBGHKJBBNBNhljkbhbhbkhkblhjkbasldfoiimoismUNuniSWExecctcVTYtrvrddcrcrt

Hi !

Thanks Josh, i have just tried to do as you advised but this does not acchieve what i am trying to do

points history pages are linked tou a user so i cant create a menu item for each one :/ and also i woant no index on different pages...

Could i assign a copy of my template with a no index meta tag to the pages i would like to remove form the index ? would this affect site speed ?

Please help

Thanks Mark !

I will add this to voices but for now if the template way works it will be fine for me

A better explanation would be good. Menu Item = page and User points history has a menu item does it not? Just select the drop down "No Index, No Follow"

Hm, yeah the work around that Josh posted is also workable as you can create a hidden menu in Joomla to tell it so that it doesn't index any page related to the "points"

Robots.txt would be my first choice for hiding menu items from search engines.

I often do use screen shots. I have dozens upon dozens posted here on this site. I thought it was common knowledge to use robots.txt. Anyways it's a file that is in the root directory of Joomla itself, here's an example. All you have to do is add an extra line at the bottom of robots.txt with:
disallow: /directory-name/

Using the robots.txt solution would be fine too but I guess it depends on how you want to achieve this.

Wow thanks guys you are awesome !

My understanding is that robot.txt stops google bot from exploring the pages. i have added this but for the pages that are already in the google index i am looking for an automatic way tor remove them as i have over 5000 urls ^^ adding the no index meta seems to be a solution ! cool !

Thanks for sharing Peter