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How to stop Google from indexing certain pages?

by bigballin6161
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How do I stop Google from indexing certain pages on my website?
#google #indexing #pages #stop
  • Profile picture of the author Jordi
    Go to google and search up "create robot.txt. file"

    Or better yet the website The Web Robots Pages

    It has all of the information you'll need
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    • Profile picture of the author webpeon
      Originally Posted by Jordi View Post

      Go to google and search up "create robot.txt. file"

      Or better yet the website The Web Robots Pages

      It has all of the information you'll need

      This is correct and the best practice method, alternatively if its only a few pages just add the following into the head section of each page
      <meta name="robots" content="noindex">

      and incase I misread the question you mention you are wanting to stop google indexing the file, if you only want to stop google and not the other search engines from indexing your pages then add the following to each page
      <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
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      • Profile picture of the author bigballin6161
        Originally Posted by webpeon View Post

        This is correct and the best practice method, alternatively if its only a few pages just add the following into the head section of each page
        <meta name="robots" content="noindex">

        and incase I misread the question you mention you are wanting to stop google indexing the file, if you only want to stop google and not the other search engines from indexing your pages then add the following to each page
        <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">
        Where exactly is the head section of a page? I have seen this before but have no clue how/where to put it!
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        • Profile picture of the author webpeon
          Originally Posted by bigballin6161 View Post

          Where exactly is the head section of a page? I have seen this before but have no clue how/where to put it!
          oh right.. if you look at a page file it should have tags that look something like this

          <html>

          <head>
          <!-- insert here -->
          <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
          </head>

          <body>
          </body>

          </html>


          The easiest way to find it is to look for the <title> tag as this will be inside the header of the page... If you post a link to one of the pages you dont want indexed I could probably be more specific for ya
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  • Profile picture of the author carsonben
    If you are using Wordpress there are plugins for this. Do a google search for PC Robots.txt Wordpress Plugin and it will come up. For some reason it doesn't come up through the wordpress plugin directory.
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