search engine indexing

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Hugh Welford

can someone remind me how toi prevent a page from being indexed by the
search engiles. Thanks Hugh
 
S

Steve Easton

Add the following between the head tags of
pages you don't want indexed.

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

It will stop *most* of them.

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Hugh Welford

thanks a million steve. hugh


Steve Easton said:
Add the following between the head tags of
pages you don't want indexed.

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

It will stop *most* of them.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer
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D

David Baxter

Or, if you're on a UNIX/Apache server (won't work with NT/IIS), you can
edit or create your .htaccess - this must be in the root directory for
your site and is created as a text file (but with no .txt extension):

add these lines...


User-agent: *
Disallow: pagename1.htm
Disallow: pagename2.htm
Disallow: /directory1/
Disallow: /directory2/

Anything not explicitly disallowed in these statements will be
spidered/indexed.
 
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Steve Easton

Dave,
Don't you mean robots.txt instead of
..htaccess??

I "thought" .htaccess on a unix would
automatically generate a password pop up.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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David Baxter

yes... sorry... of course it is robots.txt - I had just answered a
question on a forum about htaccess and got hit by brainlock...

thanks for the correction...

..htaccess can be used for other purposes than password protection
though... for example, it's one way to do page redirects and to identify
the name of a custom error 404 page...
 
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