Don't Index This Page

[Fortune Hunter]

I have heard that you can add some code to a page so that the search engines won't index it. For example, if you have a "Thank you" page that roll users over to after they buy something or send an email. I don't want this page ever showing up in a search engine. I only want users getting here if they went through the steps that should lead them there.

Anyone know what this code is that you add to keep a search engine from indexing the page?

Fortune Hunter

[tomda]

Add this line in your header

<meta name='robots' content='none'>

Do some readings about robots metatag as they are different possibilities (none, all, follow, nofollow, etc...). If this case, none means not to index the page and not to follow links seen in the page.

[Fortune Hunter]

Tomda:

Thank you, you mentioned I should read some additional information about robots. Where do I find information like this?

Fortune Hunter

[tomda]

Type in Google
"html tutorial robots none"

Note that robots.txt is another advanced way to do it, but in your case (for a single page) you'd better read documentation about ROBOTS HTML METATAG.

[yococs]

add this line on the page you dont want to index

<meta name='robots' content='noindex'>

[CanadianChris]

Or put it in your robots.txt file:

UserAgent: *
Disallow: /path/filename.html

[Fortune Hunter]

Thank you to everyone, this is exactly what I needed.

Fortune Hunter