Should I be disallowing my forum in the robots.txt file?

[bricktech]

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[eyepaq]

Hi,

Strictly from a technical SEO perspective it's ok to let the forum in the index and let the bots crawl it - for many reasons (eg: internal links, support pages for some keywords and so on).

Having duplicate Title Tags is not a big issue. The worst negative effect that you can suffer from is for a forum page to rank instead of one of your main landing pages - but that can also be fixed. There are no issues from Google's perspective if you have duplicate Title Tags (again, the only negative effect can be canibalization - you are trying to rank with multiple pages for the same query).

Now that is from a technical perspective and you should decide if you will leave it "open" or not based on two major factors: the technical aspect but probably more important the content aspect.

Is the content within the forum good ? High quality ?

There is an important set of questions (23 to be exact) that you will need to review with the forum:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.at/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html

If at the end if most of the answers are ok - then you should open the forum for the bots - if not, I would keep it  under robots.txt.

If you have a lot of content and it's at least decent content you can leverage it and gain a lot - after all is UGC and that is gold (if it's not spammy.)

Hope it helps as a short direction.

Cheers.

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