I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

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  • adrianbrookes
    First Sergeant

    • Sep 2006
    • 72

    I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

    I want to put a site up as an easy way for development collaberation between a few individuals; so although the web site is "Live" just because it exists, I want to avoid it being indexed until we're ready to do so.

    Aside from leaving the Meta Tags blank and forcing the pages as expired, is there other steps one can take to minimize or prohibit search engines from finding/indexing the pages?

    Thanks,

    Adrian
    Adrian
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  • navaldesign
    General & Forum Moderator

    • Oct 2005
    • 12080

    #2
    Re: I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

    Use the No Follow - No Index tags. Google it
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    • dougnez
      Brigadier General

      • Aug 2006
      • 1769

      #3
      Re: I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

      Hi... I used the "no index" robot directions and ended up with all pages indexed..and showing... why I don't know... Maybe submitting the index page with no links for the "DON'T wana be indexed pages"... then putting in the links once the index is up on search engine will work...I hope someone with more knowledge about this will weigh in... Doug

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      • davidundalicia
        General

        • Mar 2006
        • 6294

        #4
        Re: I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

        You can go to a google page and request taking your site off of google, they will ask you for your email and site url.
        When you have confirmed, they will take you off the index database.

        Will get back to you with the google url later.....................
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        • Karen Mac
          General

          • Apr 2006
          • 8332

          #5
          Re: I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

          Use a robot.txt file and *disallow googlebot

          you can disallow all bots by name in this manner. However, when you are ready it will take some doing getting them to come back without lots of links etc and going in and submitting again.

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          • Vasili
            Moderator

            • Mar 2006
            • 14683

            #6
            Re: I DON'T want to be indexed - best method??

            Originally posted by adrianbrookes
            I want to put a site up as an easy way for development collaberation between a few individuals; so although the web site is "Live" just because it exists, I want to avoid it being indexed until we're ready to do so.

            Aside from leaving the Meta Tags blank and forcing the pages as expired, is there other steps one can take to minimize or prohibit search engines from finding/indexing the pages?

            Thanks,

            Adrian
            In addition to the bot.text solution, you may wish to consider publishing all the pages you wish to prevent the general public from actually accessing (previously SE-cached or not) in a password-protected directory.
            This also allows you to exert even a bit more control, even within your "community" of users....
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