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Stop that SE Bots

         

Bud_Bundy

4:13 am on Aug 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,

How do I exclude a page from being crawled by SE bots?

Thanks.

RonPK

6:01 am on Aug 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



To prevent a page from being crawled, create a file called robots.txt and put it in the root of your site. Its contents:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /path/to/your/file.html

More on robots.txt at [searchengineworld.com...]

To prevent the contents of a page from being indexed, use the robots meta tag. It can be configured to have the spider not index the page you've put it on, but to follow the links:


<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">