How to keep your website out of the search results ? (private website)

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    I want to keep my website out of the search results from Google,yahoo,MSN,etc...
    I don't want my website to be indexed in any way.

    The reason is that I want to start a private investment club that is not allowed to advertise publicly.

    How can this be achieved ? ( with a turning number,a password to login,..)
     
    digi1, Apr 5, 2008 IP
  2. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Make your web site password protected, that should help.
     
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    use your robots.txt file to tell the Googlebot not to access any of your pages.
     
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    Not much use, not every search engines obey robots.txt, those that dont obey can still index. Best is still use password protection.

     
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    Is a turning number as good as a password ?
     
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    No it is quite weird to use that as a form of authentication, but I suppose it will work in your case to keep out search engines. Search engines bots wont be smart enough to figure out the turing number to get in.

     
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