Ruth in Honolulu asked: " I need website code so that search engines CANNOT
find and index pages."
There are times when you have a web site or page(s) within a web site which
you don't want to end up in a search engine.
It might be a page of family photos, where the URL is given out only to
family and friends. It might be a resource page for a professor to give
his/her students additional information. Or, it might be a temporary page to
provide information, such as a list of links, but one which you don't want
to include as part of your site, for fear of adversely impacting your page
rank.
You may say you don't have to worry about this because you haven't submitted
your site to any search engines. However, if someone else has put a link on
their site to your site, the spiders that crawl their site will eventually
end up crawling your site.
There is code you can put into your HTML which will prevent the bots from
spidering your page(s). This code is put in the header of your web page(s)
(meaning between the <head> and </head> tags), in the form of a meta tag
(and you thought meta tags were for keywords only).
Here are four examples of how this code will look;
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
There are two parameters; "index" and "follow". "Index" refers to whether or
not you want that particular page to be indexed. "Follow" refers to whether
or not you want the spider to follow the links on that page. You would
decide whether you wanted the page indexed, and whether you wanted the links
followed. Based on that decision, you would chose one of the above options.
The final code would look something like this:
<head>
<title>New Page</title>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
</head>
That's all there is to it!
Gene Carey, Broker/GRI/JIM #100
http://www.VisualTourShop.com
Hope this helps!
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