How to make your domain not visible for the search engines.

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Hey fellows worriors

Could anyone give me a tip about how to make my subdomain not visible to the public and not visible to the search engines.

I've got my product download page and I dont want someone to get there accidently (I dont want to see there the person who have not payed for my products)

cheers for your time

Irmscher
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  • you just need to put a no index no follow between the head tags of your page...like this

    <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
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    • I am actuall thinking of protecting Rar files with passwords.
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  • You can also put a robots.txt file in the root of the domain with the following contents:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /
  • I'd do all of the above

    I'd do both the noindex nofollow in the page AND the robots.txt. The robots.txt and the meta tag; however, will ONLY protect you from being found by legitimate robots. The sniffers will head directly for anything banned.

    So put a blank index.html (or a redirecting index.php) in that subdomain, rename the file to something oddball, and password protect the subdomain.

    All that will at least slow them down...

    P.S. It's like burglar-proofing a house - you can't make it totally secure (someone could always bring a wrecking ball) but you can make it more trouble than it's worth.
  • Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I really thought that the NO FOLLOW tag was only adhered to by some search engines and even those "don't follow" of "do follow".

    The answer to protected products is buying DLGuard or other similar protection.

    A little less convenient for the buyer might be a password protected folder. I don't like that idea much, but it would work and if you changed the password regularly it would not work forever on the site where they post such things so others can steal content.
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    • You can also use Google Webmaster tools to do that.
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