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How to hide a page from google?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Linking-Service, Apr 18, 2007.

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  1. #1
    Hi, I have one directory where i added a page with the details on how to advertise on a directory network of 6 directories.

    One month after i added this page, the directory droped to PR0 from PR3 so I'm going to delete that page and create a new one but i don't want google to see it. I'll put an advertise with us link on my directories.

    My question is how to hide that link and page from google? will a nofollow tag be enough?

    Thanks in advance..
     
    Linking-Service, Apr 18, 2007 IP
  2. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    if you want to hide from googlebot, you can use robots.txt and meta tags . these pages will not be visited by googlebot
     
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  3. grg

    grg Guest

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    As above, and besides that you can try to use site removal tool from google webmasters tools
     
    grg, Apr 18, 2007 IP
  4. Linking-Service

    Linking-Service Well-Known Member

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    I have added <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> to the page that's causing me problems, will that be enough to not be penalized again?
     
    Linking-Service, Apr 18, 2007 IP
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    BigBadWolf Well-Known Member

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    Add this to your robots.txt:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /page.you-dont-want-crawled.html

    :)
     
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  6. Linking-Service

    Linking-Service Well-Known Member

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    I don't get it... how and where do I add that?
     
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    #7
    roboys.txt easy way for it
     
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  8. Linking-Service

    Linking-Service Well-Known Member

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    Ok, so I have to create URL/robots.txt", and put User-agent: *
    Disallow: pageurl.you-dont-want-crawled.html in the txt file, is that correct?

    Can anyone give me a simple information on how to do it for a dumb...

    Thanks.
     
    Linking-Service, Apr 18, 2007 IP
  9. bokevoll

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    #9
    Just make a file in Notepad or something.
    Save it as robots.txt

    and put the following text inside the document:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /TheFileYou WantToHide

    and upload it to Your site root.
     
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  10. Linking-Service

    Linking-Service Well-Known Member

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    I just have to put the text file in my ROOT? Or I need to put some code in the page i want to hide that link to the text file?
     
    Linking-Service, Apr 18, 2007 IP
  11. sandrodz

    sandrodz Peon

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    u make new file, and define what google shouldn't see. U don't put anything on the existing page, u create new file in the root.
     
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    Linking-Service Well-Known Member

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  13. grg

    grg Guest

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    I don't understand something here. If your page is not indexed in Google, so what kind of penalty you can expect? They can't penalize you then. Or I don't get this.
     
    grg, Apr 18, 2007 IP
  14. Linking-Service

    Linking-Service Well-Known Member

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    The page is indexed, and even once it's not indexed, google may continue to read the page, I want to hide it completely... Google know about many pages not indexed I think... Anyway, I don't want them to see this page exist as I got PR0 because of it.... I got PR3 at the last PR update, and one month after i added that page, PR droped to 0..
     
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  15. grg

    grg Guest

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    Ok, but for the truth - They always can 'see' your page, whatever you mean by that - you can just exlude your page of their index. But what do they do then with all info about your site/domain - nobody knows.
     
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  16. gogiants

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    #16
    nofollow or robots.txt sometimes do not 100% work ...

    btw
    why you only want to hide from google
     
    gogiants, Apr 18, 2007 IP
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    Very highly doubtful that was the reason.
     
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  18. Bondat

    Bondat Peon

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    Here's the code to block Google bots

    User-Agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /
     
    Bondat, Apr 18, 2007 IP
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    I think this will disallow G from whole site, ain't?
     
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    Bondat Peon

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    Yep,quite risky I must say.

    But this one works fine for me

    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
     
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