Anti-Promotion?

How do you keep your site from being listed against your will?

[zrostar]

Hi,

I found this kickass site today, looking for meta tags that would keep my site from being listed by search engines.

I am building a small private site for just me and a few friends. I don't have a clue how to keep my site from being found by others though. The meta tags are all I could think of, and (duh) not submitting it to anything.

Any advice would be extremely helpful (and I'd be grateful).

Thanks!
zero

--apologies ahead of time if I have posted in the wrong area--

[ukgimp]

Hello zroster

Welcome to WebmasterWorld

You have a few options at your disposal which will work to various levels.

You can use noindex and robots.txt to tell bots not to index your site but that will only work with well behaved bots. There are some that wont take any notice.

The only sure fire way is to password protect the site. You can do that either with a simple password script or with use of the htaccess.

Depending on what sort of webserver you have there will be different ways of approaching it. Do a search for "password protect site X"

where x = asp, php, htaccess

Cheers

[zrostar]

That's a great idea! Thanks so much.

The search spiders won't catch any pages behind the password login, I take it?

[korkus2000]

No they can't even read cookies.

[Laisha]

Welcome, Zero. I'm glad you found your way here.

The search spiders won't catch any pages behind the password login, I take it?

Correct. If they can't get to it, they can't spider it.

[EliteWeb]

Dont want it listed use htaccess to have password box popup upon accessing the root directory and yer safe. Otherwise theres nothing you can do :D One bot one spider, tons of links it will all come in time.