Why google Indexing page I have a redirect on?

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  2. mjewel

    mjewel Prominent Member

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    Add a noindex meta tag to the page you do not want indexed.
     
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  3. tentwenty

    tentwenty Well-Known Member

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    I am using a redirect in cpanel so just creating index.html in root would stop this being index?
     
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    wp-themes Banned

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    Use robots.txt file to allow / disallow search engines spiders from indexing your website urls
     
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    tentwenty Well-Known Member

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    using robots.txt to stop google crawling my root domain we be hassel as i would need to put every other file allow.
     
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    using something called a "301 Redirect"
     
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    REALLY Made IN Canada Peon

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    If you want an SE to consider another page instead of an existing one, use a 301 (permanent redirect). Even so, this will take time to propagate.

    Your root page for your domain can be a very important page in your site. Forcing SEs to ignore it and skip to another page could cost you some opportunities. If you want your target page to be the main page for your site, why not install the target content IN your root area?
     
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