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Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Mr.tyro, Sep 1, 2008.

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    Some of the pages on my site i don't want to get index by google. Pages like contact us and some feature articles because they don't get updated or are published somewhere else before. I have the article republish consent and is only there for the reader not to benefit anyhow from it.

    Would i go about puting <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> in my html page?
     
    Mr.tyro, Sep 1, 2008 IP
  2. Azher Memon

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    yes you can but i would like to suggest you to go by webmaster tools.
     
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    Meta tag is security. Which page do you want index or not. you can use robot.txt. This is helpful.
     
    DrAnujGupta, Sep 1, 2008 IP
  4. Mr.tyro

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    Im still not quite following you, a beginner to SEO. What steps do i have to take so that google doesn't index my page? And if it has how to un-index it but keep the rest?
     
    Mr.tyro, Sep 1, 2008 IP
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    DrAnujGupta's suggestion is correct. You can use robots.txt to tell SEs not to index certain pages.

    For example you have a directory yourdomain.com/articles that you don't want SEs to index you can put the following code in your robots.txt:

    
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /articles
    
    Code (markup):
    Be careful with robots.txt or you might end-up getting your website de-indexed. :)

    Ref: http://www.robotstxt.org/
    or
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

    I don't like the meta tags approach all that much :)
     
    jitendraag, Sep 1, 2008 IP
  6. serialCoder

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    i agree, robots.txt is the way to go, if you're quite new, here is one definition

    Web site owners use the robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
     
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    You should have a robots.txt file anyway. This is where you should do this task.
     
    catanich, Sep 1, 2008 IP