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HOW TO HIDE LINK FROM GOOGLE SEARCH
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:20 am
by Mijanur
Hi
I was wondering if anyone can help with this query i wanted to hide the followinf link from google search
can anyone advise me on how i can do that please.
if i serach for in google it show me all the pages but i do not want this page to be shown.
how can i over come this problem??
thanx for your time
Moe
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:22 am
by thiscatis
robots.txt ?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:33 am
by Mijanur
robots.txt ?
whats that? im soory i dont know much about coding
Kind Regards
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:38 am
by John Cartwright
Create a file called robots.txt and add the following lines
Also, it doesn't hurt to do a quick search on the subject either, or even make your title not in all capitol letters

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:38 am
by onion2k
robots.txt is a file you put on your website that tells robots (web search engine spiders) what they're allowed to access. The format for robots.txt files is pretty simple, a search in Google will get you hundreds of tutorials and stuff.
However, this isn't really what you want. If the page is already in Google then a robots.txt file on your server isn't going to remove it. For that you'll have to use the "URL Removal Request Tool" ..
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... topic=8459
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:17 am
by Mijanur
Thanx for your help guys. i didnt know of robot.txt bofore until today
kind ragards
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:19 am
by Mijanur
i have created a file robot.txt and uploaded it with the folowing code
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin1
it still appears on google. does it take a while for it to become active?
kind regards
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:43 am
by John Cartwright
onion2k has already commented on that.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:44 am
by jayshields