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I know this is an odd question for this forum

by jmidas
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I realize the goal of everyone here is to get their sites found by the search engines/indexes - mine too, most of the time.

BUT, I have a site that I don't want found by the search engines or that will have the pages indexed (don't want my name or company name showing up for searches of same). I want the site to be found only when I give someone the URL.

So, my question is: how do I not get found? I have never done anything to try to not get found (although some of my SEO efforts seem to have acheived this anyway). Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks, J
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  • Profile picture of the author Laura B
    Use a robots.txt file
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      Thanks Laura B,

      Here is what I found at robotstxt.org:

      About /robots.txt
      In a nutshell

      Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
      It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:
      User-agent: *Disallow: /The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.
      There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt:
      • robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
      • the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use.
      So don't try to use /robots.txt to hide information.
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