markloessi
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Stop search bots from cataloging site
Hi,
I'm building a few sites in which I do not want search bots to catalog the site Or put another way I would like them to ignore the site. How do I do this?
I'm building a few sites in which I do not want search bots to catalog the site Or put another way I would like them to ignore the site. How do I do this?
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> create a robots.txt file in your root directory with the following line:
This should read 'lines'.. so two separate lines - one for 'User-agent: *' and one for 'Disallow: /'
This should read 'lines'.. so two separate lines - one for 'User-agent: *' and one for 'Disallow: /'
http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm