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For example, you may offer a secret site that's password protected.
You don't want these "password protected" pages to be listed in the search engines because the visitor wouldn't know the password, right? Or... |
Perhaps you offer special coded pages for testing your web pages, sales techniques, or visitor sources. You wouldn't want these pages to be listed because it could relay false test results for your site.
And, there are other unique reasons why this HTML tip is useful.
Here's what you can add to your HTML tags to prevent search engine listings for certain pages of your site...
Within the HTML of the page you do not want to be listed, insert one of the following codes between your<HEAD> and </HEAD> tags:
This metatag tells the robots not to index this page and not to follow any links within the page:
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<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
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This metatag tells the robots not to index this page, but follow any links within the page:
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<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">
You can read more about metatags in future web design articles.
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