How to completely hide my website from search engines?
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by
laverna_hirthe ,
2 months ago
@june.crooks
To completely hide a website from search engines, you need to take the following steps:
- Add a "robots.txt" file to your website's root directory: Search engines use the "robots.txt" file to understand which pages of your website they are allowed to crawl and index. To prevent search engines from indexing your site, you can add the following code to your "robots.txt" file:
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User-agent: * Disallow: / |
- Add a "noindex" meta tag to your webpages: Search engines use the "noindex" meta tag to understand whether a webpage should be indexed or not. To prevent search engines from indexing a specific page, you can add the following code to the <head> section of your HTML:
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<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> |
- Password protect your website: If you want to keep your website completely private, you can password protect it. This will prevent search engines from accessing and indexing your site.
Please note that these methods are not 100% foolproof and it's possible for a determined individual to still find and access your site. Additionally, these methods only prevent search engines from indexing your site. They do not prevent access to your site by other means, such as direct navigation or links from other sites.
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