Making zip and pdf files so they won't be indexed

Anybody know how to make zip and pdf files so they won't be indexed by the searchengines? This can be done with the robots.txt file right?

Can I do it from the control panel of my webhost?

Thanks

 

Add no index in your meta tags on the page you want to offer the files.

 

In the html root of your site, put a robots.txt file. It will look something like this

User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder name where the files will be/

Sign up for a google webmaster account. And if google does index the files, you can make a submission to have to files removed from googles index.

Also, to stop people from browsing the folder, put a blank index.html file in it. That way if someone types in the directory name, they will see a blank page, instead of a list of all your files.

 

Can I put the file type (pdf, zip, etc)?

What would the text in need to enter look like?

Thanks