How
to Prevent the Search Engines
from
Listing Your Web Pages
By Candice Pardue
Hidden web pages,
prevent indexing by search engines
Prevent the Search Engines from Indexing Web Pages
Prevent search engines from
listing you????
Wait a minute - I thought my goal was
to get my site listed with as many search engines as
possible.
Well, in most cases, yes. But there
are special circumstances in which you wouldn't want the
search engines to list your pages. 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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Article written by Candice Pardue,
freelance
online article writer and
owner of Online Success for Internet Business. Go here to
learn web design from start to finish. This one's for
beginners...
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