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Is it possible to block search engines from indexing "specific" pages on my blog???

by blackhawkup Banned
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I have a blog that i will be using to sell a new product...it will have some one time offers on it within the flow of sells page, upsell / downsale , etc, etc.
I am guessing that i dont want to have my upsell pages indexed because lets say you go to google and you search for my product name...it will show my home page as well as all the pages that are indexed under that domain name..

lol..

i dont think it would be a good business move to have all of my upsells and downsales listed right under my home page on google.

so is there a way for me to block certain pages on my blog from the search engines...

or am i forced to make all off my upsale/downsale pages seperate and block the serps using robots, .htaccess, and meta tags and all that stuff..

please help.
#block #blog #engines #indexing #pages #search #specific
  • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
    RPJackson,

    Use the Meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing a particular page - put the following tag inside the <head> section. The head section always comes before the <body> tag.


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

    noindex prevents indexing of anything on the page, and nofollow prevents the search engine from exploring the links on the page. You can also substitute noimageindex for noindex if you want the text to be indexed by search engines but not the images.

    To control access to your entire site using a central location, create a text-only file in a program like Notepad and upload it to the main or root directory of your web site. You can specify general rules in this file for all search engines and directories, followed by specific rules for particular engines and directories.

    Here's example for this last type of file:


    User-agent: * # * means all robots
    Disallow: # no directories blocked
    #
    # "#" is a comment character used to make the
    # search engine ignore the rest of the line.
    #
    # if you want to limit just AltaVista, use:
    User-agent: scooter # Altavista's nickname
    Disallow: * # * means all directories
    #
    # or, to limit search engine access to a directory:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /personal/pictures
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    • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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      yes but if i do it this way, im going to block the search engines from every page and i dont want to do that..because if you are familiar with wordpress the header section is for the entire site not just each individual page...

      How can i use the robots file to block specific pages can you give me some examples??
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  • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
    RP,

    Each page to your website has META tags. You can use the meta tags on your site pages as stated here:

    Use the Meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing a particular page - put the following tag inside the <head> section. The head section always comes before the <body> tag.


    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
    You do not have to use this code for all your pages. For instance, if you want to get the SEs to index your index page, then do not put this tag in that page. BUT, if you want specific pages to be blocked such as a "membersship area" pages, then place that tag on all the pages that make up the member's area of your site. The same can be said for your product download pages.

    Hope this makes sense to you ...
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    • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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      i dont think its clear that i am talking about a WORDPRESS BLOG. not a regular html site. yes all the above replies will work for a regular html site. but how would i implement this on a blog that is the question.

      i have a blog i only want one page to show up on the serps. the rest of the pages i want to have no follow links, and images i also want them to be blocked from the serps.

      i dont want to make the page private because i want people to read it, just not from the serps.
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      • Profile picture of the author butters
        Block or remove pages using a robots.txt file - Webmasters/Site owners Help

        This may help. Wordpress or not, each page you want to block has a certain url
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      • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
        Originally Posted by rpjackson View Post

        i dont think its clear that i am talking about a WORDPRESS BLOG. not a regular html site. yes all the above replies will work for a regular html site. but how would i implement this on a blog that is the question.

        i have a blog i only want one page to show up on the serps. the rest of the pages i want to have no follow links, and images i also want them to be blocked from the serps.

        i dont want to make the page private because i want people to read it, just not from the serps.

        And that code will do the job for a WP Blog or HTML site. META tags are META tags!


        Now if you want an easier way of doing it, I suggest you do what Martain said and get that WP plugin.
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        • Profile picture of the author blackhawkup
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          Originally Posted by mmurtha View Post

          And that code will do the job for a WP Blog or HTML site. META tags are META tags!


          Now if you want an easier way of doing it, I suggest you do what Martain said and get that WP plugin.

          im deff going to check out the plugin thanks for all of the help guys
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    The Robots-META plugin will enable you to do this easily - you can set both the indexing and follow tags on a post by post basis.

    You can also selectively noindex posts if you're using the Thesis theme.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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