How to Block Search Engines

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Understand robots.txt files.. Create and save and robots.txt file.. Write a full-disallow robots.txt file.

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Understand robots.txt files.

Step 1

Understand robots.txt files.

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Create and save and robots.txt file.

Step 2

Create and save and robots.txt file.

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Write a full-disallow robots.txt file.

Step 3

Write a full-disallow robots.txt file.

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Write a conditional-allow robots.txt file.

Step 4

Write a conditional-allow robots.txt file.

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Encourage bots to index and crawl your site.

Step 5

Encourage bots to index and crawl your site.

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Save the txt file to the root of your domain.

Step 6

Save the txt file to the root of your domain.

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Understand HTML robots meta tags.

Step 7

Understand HTML robots meta tags.

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Block bots from a single page.

Step 8

Block bots from a single page.

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Allow the bots to index a page, but not follow its links.

Step 9

Allow the bots to index a page, but not follow its links.

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Let the search engine spiders follow the links but not index the page.

Step 10

Let the search engine spiders follow the links but not index the page.

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Block a single outgoing link.

Step 11

Block a single outgoing link.

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Block a specific search engine spider.

Step 12

Block a specific search engine spider.

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Encourage bots to crawl and index your page.

Step 13

Encourage bots to crawl and index your page.

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