How To Stop Google Indexing Pages

[Frogkase]

Hey Guys,

I have some protected pages on my site and I would like to know how to stop Google from indexing them?

I don't want people to be able to find those pages as they need to go through my squeeze page first.

Thanks a lot for your time!

Matt

[wysiwyg4]

Re: How To Stop Google Indexing Pages

You can use any of the following methods.

1. Use a robots.txt robots exclusion file
2. <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
3. <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />
4. If you want a search engine to index your page without allowing a user to view a cached copy,
use the noarchive attribute which is officially supported by Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />

[Frogkase]

Re: How To Stop Google Indexing Pages

Wow, cool reply!

Thanks for that Shafi!

Sorry I am not very technical..

Just to clarify, I can use any of these methods?

What would be the advantage of indexing the pages without allowing a user to view a cached copy?

Does that help my site with rankings but still stop viewers from seeing those pages?

Where do these things get placed in the page?

Thank you very much for your time!