Selectively Excluding
Pages from Being Indexed
There are many times you may with to exclude
certain pages from being indexed by certain engines. One way
to do this is by utilizing a robots.txt file and uploading
it to the root directory of your Web site.
Basically, you just create a text file
with Window's NotePad or any other editor that can save ASCII
.txt files.
Use the following syntax:
User-Agent: {SpiderNameHere}
Disallow: {FilenameHere}
For example, to tell Inktomi's
spider, called Slurp, to not index files called orderform.html
and junk.html, create a robots.txt file as follows:
User-Agent: ArchitextSpider
Disallow: orderform.html
Disallow: junk.html
You would then upload this robots.txt
file to the root directory of your Web site. Although this
is a voluntary protocol, most major search engines will honor
it.
You can add more lines to exclude pages
from other engines by specifying the User-Agent parameter
again in the same file, followed by more Disallow lines. Each
disallow statement will be applied to the last User-Agent
that was specified. If you want to exclude an entire directory,
use this syntax:
User-Agent: ArchitextSpider
Disallow: /mydirectory/
Other options are to exclude the
page from all spiders with:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /mydirectory/
Do
NOT use the wildcard (*) character in the Disallow line since
that's not supported.
Make sure you use the proper syntax. If
you misspell something, it's not going to work.
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