Comments on: How to Hide a Page from Google

By: 7 wpisów, które warto przeczyta?.

7 wpisów, które warto przeczyta?. — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:59:49 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:41:28 +0000

When beginning your site there is a setting in WordPress under “Settings” called privacy where you specify you don’t want your site indexed – it also asks this during the install. Don’t forget to change after you are ready for you site to be indexed. Also if the page is already indexed you could move the file/directory to a new name or location and use the robot.txt file to prevent indexing under the new name/location. Might be easier than trying to get it out of the google index. Does the robots meta plugin allow you to block a whole directory or just files?

By: Kaz

Kaz — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:51:18 +0000

Hi Pat,
I read this post the other day when reviewing my google reader and thought must remember that – and then today I had the very need to do this and so of course knew i could come back here and look how to do it – very useful – thanks!

By: Murlu

Murlu — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:20:18 +0000

Good tip to bring up Pat.

Another great way to utilize this is to block out search engines from indexing while you’re still working on the site. During development you may need to test out the website on a live server but if you forget to noindex it you’ll start showing up before you’re ready to launch.

Although your pages will be updated later it can still take time for everything to reindex on the page within search engine results.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:11:51 +0000

Remember that just because it’s being blocked by Google doesn’t mean it’s being blocked by everybody. So, sometimes google will still have those pages indexed.

By: Profit Addiction

Profit Addiction — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:20:44 +0000

Right, that would actually be easier!

By: Patrick | Lalala Music

Patrick | Lalala Music — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:24:10 +0000

Merci beaucoup!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:22:19 +0000

You have a valid point as well, Owen. But I also think that the password is a sign of something “forbidden” or “secret”, and there is nothing forbidden or a secret about a FREE e-book. So if the the reader pre-qualifies once and gets to the squeeze page, why would he have to pre-qualify another time having to type in a password? It just reduces your target group and potential return.

Cheers!
Patrick

By: Owen McGab Enaohwo

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:01:37 +0000

Your point is valid and another way of looking at it is that they are also willing to take the extra step to get the eBook (at least those who enter in the password) hence adding and additional means to pre-qualify your list

By: Chris G

Chris G — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:47:11 +0000

Great information Pat. I have been looking for how to do this for a while. I was unaware of the “robots meta” plug-in until now.

Thank-you!