How
to Prevent the Search Engines
from
Listing Your Web Pages
Hidden web pages,
prevent indexing by search engines
Prevent the Search Engines from Indexing Web
Pages
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:
---
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
---
This metatag tells the
robots not to index this page, but follow any links
within the page:
---
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">
You can read more about
metatags in future web design articles.
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