Posted by Ed Mullen on 09/12/07 20:22

dorayme wrote:
> A website is on a server. Just one or two of the pages are not
> for public consumption. They are not top secret and no big harm
> would be done if it was not 100% possible, but it would be best
> if they did not come up in search engines. (A sort of provision
> by a company for making some files available to those who have
> the address. Company does not want password protection; but I am
> considering persuading them).
>
> What is the simplest and most effective way of stopping robots
> searching a particular html pages on a server. Am looking for an
> actual example and clear instructions. Getting confused by
> looking at http://www.searchtools.com/index.html though doubtless
> I will get less confused after much study.
>

Why not just put it in a password-protected directory?

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