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How to hide content from Google search?

fidero · 2012-11-28 19:31:12

Hi guys Can any of ye suggest anyway that I can hide content on a website from Google search or prevent it coming up in it's searches? The content is currently in HTML. N.D., Fi. P.S.: I have attempted searching boards for this question but found nothing. I couldn't find any forum that matched my question so this was the…

28-11-2012 8:31pm

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fidero

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Hi guys
Can any of ye suggest anyway that I can hide content on a website from Google search or prevent it coming up in it's searches? The content is currently in HTML.

N.D.,
Fi.

P.S.: I have attempted searching boards for this question but found nothing. I couldn't find any forum that matched my question so this was the next best forum.

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#2 28-11-2012 8:38pm

Explosive_Cornflake

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robots.txt

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#3 29-11-2012 12:09am

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http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93708

robots.txt
or
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

both work

If you want, you could also nofollow any of your links to said page: <a href="pagex.html" rel="nofollow">sign in</a>

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#4 02-12-2012 12:15pm

Squeeonline

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All these things just ask Google to not index. No search engine actually has to follow your request.

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