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BeTheBall -> Help me hide (9/21/2005 15:35:30)

What is the standard procedure for hiding content from Google? We are evidently moving to Google as our enterprise search engine for our Government intranet. The site I administer has some content that I do not want coming up in search results. How do I make Google ignore it? I am on a Linux box, if that makes any difference.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Help me hide (9/21/2005 17:09:06)

Just a clause in your robots.txt (placed in the root folder of where your html files are):

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

If you are just wanting to hide from Google, replace the * with Googlebot



Tailslide -> RE: Help me hide (9/21/2005 17:36:18)

or you could put "Sexy Ladies" say about 300 times in the Keywords and <h1> tags (in the background colour of course) That should do the trick!



dpf -> RE: Help me hide (9/21/2005 17:45:06)

now that is funny...



jaybee -> RE: Help me hide (9/21/2005 17:51:09)

It would also get the entire site banned not just those pages. [:D]



BeTheBall -> RE: Help me hide (9/21/2005 19:08:06)

INTRANET - The site will be fine, but I will be unemployed! I don't want to hide the whole site, just parts of it. How do I specify which directories should not be displayed.



rubyaim -> RE: Help me hide (9/21/2005 19:31:17)

Hi Duane, we have been looking at this as well and I have the same concerns.

According to Google:
quote:


".. it's easy to exclude any content that administrators don't want users to be able to search across."


And also

quote:


Does the Search Appliance honor robots.txt and robots meta tags?

Yes. The Google Search Appliance honors robots.txt files, plain text files that you create and put on your server to exclude search engine crawlers from accessing pages or directories on your site. The Google Search Appliance clients can also use the Admin Console to configure what areas of content are included and excluded from their search index.


It will probably take those who are in charge here around 4 years to make a decision though, so I probably won't have the opportunity to put it to the test any time soon [8|]

I guess most of us have things on Intranets we don't want indexed so something like this would have to take that into account.

All the best with it [:)]





Reflect -> RE: Help me hide (9/29/2005 13:26:22)

Duanne,

The following, from Google, will give you ALL of the options. Depending on what and how there are several approaches, give it a good read as I was suprised when looking over the different situations that you can create when I first found this.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

Take care,

Brian



dntchaseme -> Thanks (10/3/2005 14:58:02)

Thanks man ur link help me alot in my work

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