Stop Search Engines

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by SpikeUK, Oct 22, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi

    I have a small site that I don't want to be logged by search engines. I want it to remain invisible to search engines. Can someone give me some tips on how to achieve this?

    Thanks

    Spike
     
    SpikeUK, Oct 22, 2005 IP
  2. tresman

    tresman Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Uuse robots.txt to disallow them. Just do a small search in google and you'll see how.
     
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  3. HN Will

    HN Will Guest

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    #3
    Yeah, specifically its

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    that'll do it.
     
    HN Will, Oct 22, 2005 IP
  4. Nick Vanderhoven

    Nick Vanderhoven Peon

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    #4
    You can also add:

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

    for robots that don't read the robots.txt. The best way is maybe to do some bad practices so that your site will be banned from the search engines ;)
     
    Nick Vanderhoven, Oct 22, 2005 IP
  5. Foggy

    Foggy Link and Site Buyer

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    Be aware though that this is not a 100% guarantee of anything. If someone scrapes your site then the SEs could pick up that scraped content on a different URL to yours... and rank it.
     
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  6. Spearheadltd

    Spearheadltd Peon

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    Spyder Spanker will stop them all. Google it.
     
    Spearheadltd, Jun 1, 2012 IP
  7. ramkarthick2

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    i hope that spearheadltd has given us useful information, i will make note of it.
     
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    Dude you can the following code for disallowed any search engine.


    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /
     
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