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  <body>Some members have requested the ability to prevent their profile from showing up in Google. Generally, you want to be visible via search engines, but there are occasionally times when you don't.

You can now control this yourself via your Lightstalkers preferences:
https://www.lightstalkers.org/users/update_prefs

You can turn this on and off as you like. 

If your profile's *already* in Google and you need to get it out of there, you can also consider changing your profile URL. Changing the URL will break any existing links to your profile, and cause Google to update its index a bit more quickly.

Thanks for all your support, and if you value Lightstalkers, please consider &quot;making a donation&quot;:http://www.lightstalkers.org/about/donations to help pay for our server costs!</body>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2008-09-22T18:05:05Z</created-at>
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  <lastreply-at type="datetime">2008-09-23T17:52:35Z</lastreply-at>
  <location>New York City</location>
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  <title>Google-proofing your profile</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-09-23T17:52:35Z</updated-at>
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