How to tell SE's which page they should NOT index?

[Kaled]

Hi Voda members!

I need more control :) .. How can I tell search engine spiders NOT to index my private pages?



Thanks.. I LOVE this forum ;D
Kaled
http://habitmagic.com

[Bethers]

Re: How to tell SE's which page they should NOT index?

Hi Kaled

This is when you want to do the robots.txt. If you want to keep some pages private - in the meta for the page - you need to have a robots.txt and this is what you need on each of those pages:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">

Put this in between the header tags. You do this by placing it on each page - right click to go into page html - then click on the tab for between head tag and insert the above there. The se's will not index the pages you have this on.

Now, if they have previously indexed them- that will not go away. This will work for the future.

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[Karen Mac]

Re: How to tell SE's which page they should NOT index?

You could also do it with a robots.txt file and you would use a disallow command line
*disallow /site
or
*disallow /whatever pages and submenus..etc

Karen

[Kaled]

Re: How to tell SE's which page they should NOT index?

Beth, Karen,

got it, thanks a lot.. this is why i LOVE this forum :)

Thanks again,
Kaled