Showing up on Yahoo.... 1

[egnilk66]

Parts of my website, that I wish weren't, are showing up in a yahoo search.... like my intranet page on how to set up email.... We only want our main

http://WWW page

to show up on search engines. How can I prevent this?

 

[traingamer]

Put in meta tags to let the search engines know not to use these pages like:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
or
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">
or
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

The first says not to index it, the second not to spider the hyperlinks and the third stops both.

(You want the first example included in every page you don't want indexed).

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[ChrisHirst]

using the meta robots tag won't actually remove or prevent the pages from being crawled or listed on some search criteria (eg: the site: search). The pages have to be read before the metas can be acted on.

You should use the robots.txt to exclude crawlers from the files/folders Robotstxt.org


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