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# Joe Mitchell

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions] URGENT — Presumably protected pages showing up on web (Google) searches!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-presumably-protected-pages-showing-up-on-web-google-searches/)
 *  Thread Starter [Joe Mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-mitchell/)
 * (@joe-mitchell)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-presumably-protected-pages-showing-up-on-web-google-searches/#post-5211671)
 * So putting the files I don’t want the bots to find in the s2Members plugin directory
   will preclude the bots for finding them?
 * I looked around for an answer to the below two questions but couldn’t find an
   answer.
 * Do I have to manually upload files using something like filezilla to the special
   s2Member files directory?
 * And once the files are in the s2Member directory is there an easy way to link
   to them of is it primarily a manual intensive effort?
 * Thanks again. . . . .
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions] URGENT — Presumably protected pages showing up on web (Google) searches!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-presumably-protected-pages-showing-up-on-web-google-searches/)
 *  Thread Starter [Joe Mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-mitchell/)
 * (@joe-mitchell)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-presumably-protected-pages-showing-up-on-web-google-searches/#post-5211669)
 * Thanks for the quick reply.
 * I think I may be gaining an understanding. If you restrict a page or post it 
   is restricted from the public. If you upload a file/picture/etc. to the standard
   wp upload file area, then link to that file/picture/etc. from a restricted post/
   page, the file is still accessible from bots looking around in the database which
   is still not “protected”. Therefore, upload files/pictures/etc. that you want
   restricted to the special s2Member directory then link your restricted page/post
   to that file.
 * Thanks load–I’ve got a lot of re-uploading to do ! ! ! !
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[s2Member – Excellent for All Kinds of Memberships, Content Restriction Paywalls & Member Access Subscriptions] URGENT — Presumably protected pages showing up on web (Google) searches!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-presumably-protected-pages-showing-up-on-web-google-searches/)
 *  Thread Starter [Joe Mitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-mitchell/)
 * (@joe-mitchell)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-presumably-protected-pages-showing-up-on-web-google-searches/#post-5211667)
 * Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. I have discovered even more areas
   where access to what I thought was protected information is available to anyone
   just by doing a search on Google. These “protected” pages are .pdf files that
   are in the web sites database. The .pdf files are usually linked to from a page
   or post that is “protected”. It appears that the bot search engine is going directly
   to the database and indexing files that are uploaded to the wp-contents/uploads/
   directory.

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